to make new furniture out of recycled products. it is one of many skills that are being taught, and the aim is to get them out of unemployment and back into useful work. and the products they make are quite pleasant too. this is a not—for—profit organisation which gives unemployed people paid jobs as they get the training. luka used to work in construction. but now he is building furniture. translation: i'll carry on doing this after my contract is up to perfect my skills. because i really enjoy what i'm doing. but for this economist, these are sticking plaster solutions. and radical reform is needed. youth unemployment has been very high for last four decades. in france and in this region in particular. i do not think there is a magical solution to that. but you have to put the focus at the same time on education, definitely, and put the means for education,