“Spain is undergoing a crisis of enormous proportions,” Mr García-Margallo told state radio, insisting that reforms by the centre-right government of Mariano Rajoy, prime minister, would eventually restore the economy to health.

加西亚-马加略告诉西班牙国家电台：“西班牙正在经历一场巨大的危机。”他坚持认为，首相马里亚诺•拉霍伊(Mariano Rajoy)的中右翼政府实施的改革最终会使西班牙经济恢复健康。

Half of young people under 25 have no work and in more than 1.7m households no one has a job. That contrasts starkly with fellow eurozone country Germany, where unemployment is at its lowest point since east and west reunited in 1990.

西班牙25岁以下年轻人中有一半没有工作，170多万个家庭全家失业。这和同为欧元区成员国的德国形成鲜明对比，德国的失业率正处于1990年东西德统一以来的最低点。

The unemployment figures come amid a Europe-wide debate about whether government austerity imposed to cut budget deficits is threatening growth prospects. However, Luis de Guindos, economy minister, made it clear Madrid was not abandoning austerity and announced plans to raise value added tax next year, something the government had promised repeatedly not to do.

发布上述失业数据之际，整个欧洲都在争论为削减预算赤字而实施的政府紧缩计划是否正对经济增长前景构成威胁。不过，西班牙经济大臣路易斯•德金多斯(Luis de Guindos)明确表示，马德里方面没有放弃紧缩，而且宣布了明年提高增值税的计划——西班牙政府曾一再承诺不会提高增值税。

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