PUBLISHED: 04:46 EST, 11 July 2013 | UPDATED: 18:51 EST, 12 July 2013 Millions of Europe's unemployed youth are moving to more wealthy countries in the European Union as they desperately try to find work. New figures have revealed that the number of Europeans who have moved to better off countries in the north to find work has doubled since the economic crises first hit four years ago, with Britain and Germany topping the list of choices. Almost a quarter of the EU's under 25s  - some 5.6million - are now unemployed. New figures have revealed that the number of Europeans who have moved to better off countries to find work has doubled to five million since the economic crises first hit four years ago, with Britain and Germany topping the list of choices.
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Almost a quarter of the EU's under 25s are unemployed - some 5.6million
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Number moving to wealthier countries doubled since recession first hit
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