Merkel tells young Europeans to move to find work By Stephen Evans

BBC News, Berlin Published duration 14 June 2013

media caption Angela Merkel: "We need more mobility"

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has said the 3.6 million or so young unemployed people in the eurozone should be ready to move for work.

She has long been criticised in eurozone countries like Spain and Greece where unemployment is rising to previously unknown levels.

In an interview for the BBC, she said their level of joblessness represented a "huge crisis".

But she also resolutely defended the policy of tight controls on spending.

When unemployment among the young had soared in her own area of East Germany, "many young people... only had jobs because they moved to the south", she said.

There would have to be more "mobility",Image copyright Lindsay Coulter Image caption Ibrahim Halil Dudu had been in Canada just four days when his skills as a tailor were called on to save a bride's wedding day

It is the nightmare situation that no bride wants on her wedding day: as one of Jo Du's bridesmaids did up the zip on her dress, it broke.

Jo didn't know it yet, but there was no need to panic.

Because next door was a tailor, a man who had only arrived in Canada days before after fleeing Syria's war-torn violence, unable to speak a word of English.

Ibrahim Halil Dudu did not hesitate to come to the rescue.

"I was so excited and so happy," Ibrahim told CTV News through a translator. "I like to help Canadian people from my heart."

He