jackie roland, al jazeera. >> and jackie has just sent us this update from that conference in paris. >> the french president outlined some new ideas about how to get young people back into work. hi said there needed to be a new emphasis on training and apprenticeship, he also said there needs to be bridges built between young people and companiesen and the workplace on the other, so that young people can realize what they need to offer are companies in order to get jobs. and he also said there should be aware of encouraging young people to become entrepreneurs to actually set up their own businesses. jackie roland reporting. >> madrid has now suffered a whole week without rubbish collection. garbage collectors went on strike after a private company responsible for keeping the city clean, bro posed costing more than 1,000 jobs. reports now from madrid. >> it was a city that brided itself on being clean, and well maintained. but right now, madrid is a rather depressing place. upsetting the locals and the tourists. >> we just arrived here an hour or so ago. we came over from barcelona,

rather than pushing them out, one small town in western france is focusing on integrating roma jacky rolandins. >> reporter: this man has held down this job for four months now. it is a big achievement for him. as a roman immigrant in france, he is more used to asking for handouts than earning a wage. >> translator: before i had a job i was begging. that's the way it was. now that i have a job, i don't cause trouble. >> reporter: he and his family were among a convoy of 50 roma caravans that arrived here. the local community was overwhelmed. but the mayor provided mobile homes for five families and persuaded neighboring towns to accept the rest. what is happening here is virtually unique in france. in most towns shortly after a group of roma arrive, you can expect the police to come and move them along. local volunteers have set up a cooking project that provides a small income for some of the women. they take orders online, and once a week they cook and sell a meal to people. >> translator: working here is good for me. i can earn 30 euros to buy food for think children. >> reporter: but th

jackie roland has more from paris. >> the european commission says that there are clear signs that the economy both within the euro zone, and within the e.u. as a whole, has reached a turning point. it would appear to vindicate the kind of tough medicine which has been prescribed, but at the same time, the commission is warning that growth will be slower to pick up and it will only be very gradually that increased growth will lead to an improvement in the employment situation. sew the commissioner is saying this is a time to keep working and in burglar there are a couple of issues that is still great concern, and one of them is implement. specifically youth unemployment. we have seen countries across europe trying to cut public spending and in particular by cutting the public sector, cutting jobs. reducing benefits all of this has led to unrest in a number of countries and also to political problems so it is quite clear that while there may be some positive trends there is reason to be very cautious about the outlook within europe. >> meanwhile, unemployment in spain is getting worse.