Can the NEET Fight Defeat?

Kai Lippolt left school as a teenager and then broke off his apprenticeship as a heating mechanic after six months. The 22-year-old German, who was born in Jena and moved to Bavaria as a child, has drifted around from job to job ever since, working at a recycling company, in warehouses and some industrial jobs, but never for very long. "These jobs are too boring and after a while I can't get up in the morning," he says bluntly. Lippolt belongs to a group that is fast emerging as one of the toughest problems for European governments: he's a NEET, a...