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> Germany @ 3%

Did you cherry-pick that one? Spain @ 14.2%, Italy @9.7%, France @8.5%. Spain was actually at 26.2% back in March 2013.

It doesn't invalidate the grandparents point.

You can easily find dozens of countries with at will employment, and high unemployment.

And I think, Spain has actually less stringent worker protection laws than Germany.