The Pope has frequently bemoaned the waning role the Church plays in Europe and says that he hopes that the trip to Germany will help kick-start "a wave of new faith among young people, especially the youth in Germany and Europe".
One of the German ministers was encouraging young people to move to Germany.
Having grown up in Germany, the young are better educated than their parents and would be strangers in Turkey if they returned.
Young western Germans know more of East Germany's history.
ECONOMIST: East German history continues to arouse controversy
The young are heading abroad to the UK, Germany or wherever there is work.
In Germany, about 65% of young people obtain an apprenticeship certificate, whereas in Britain the figure is less than 20%.
One book that has taken Germany by storm is by a young author born in the eastern city of Dresden, Ingo Schulze.
She and her husband arrived in Germany together, but left their young boys behind with relatives until they can afford a suitable home.
Ms Schavan told Reuters TV that "there are great jobs and apprenticeships here", noting that young Spaniards can already look for work in Germany.
One of my favorite Rite of Spring memories is of Leonard Bernstein rehearsing the piece with an orchestra of young musicians at the Schleswig Holstein Festival in Germany.
Capello started with only three first-choice players remaining from the victory in Belarus, while Germany counterpart Joachim Loew also fielded a young, experimental team.
"If you asked me two years ago, I would never believe that so many young people would leave Greece and go to London or Germany or other European countries, " he said.
CNN: Fear and confusion rule as Greece faces uncertain future
Berlin's Der Tagesspiegel wondered whether so many young people had ever gathered for a political event in Germany and said that Obama's address -- which echoed speeches by former U.S. presidents John F.
Although Germany attached little importance to the matches, the young and largely re-vamped US squad was greatly buoyed by the performances.
In western Germany, seeing peers' incomes rising actually makes young people happier (even more than a rise in their own incomes, remarkably).
On the good side he cites cases such as Mr Monti, young entrepreneurs, strong manufacturing (Italy is second only to Germany in Europe), a revitalised Fiat and Turin.
Meanwhile, studies have shown that young athletes in northern European countries such as Britain, Finland and Germany often suffer from vitamin D deficiency.
The unemployment rates of the young and unskilled can be astronomical, even in rich nations like Germany and France, as older unionized workers have worked to calcify labor markets to their own advantage.
But for young Jewish-Americans, the athletes from what was then democratic West Germany remained a group we met with deep suspicion.
Two measures that helped Germany keep youth unemployment low are apprentice training and subsidized employment for young people, including self-employment.
For comparison, there are 23m boys below the age of 20 in Germany, France and Britain combined and around 40m American boys and young men.
Yet the story remains a gripping one: the shadowy world of ex-Nazis hiding away in a far-off continent, Germany's own struggle of memory against forgetting, and a young country's clamorous desire for justice.
As a young man Konrad Kujau had studied art in Dresden, in what was then East Germany.
Even in Germany, car-culture-vulture of Europe, the share of young households without cars increased from 20% to 28% between 1998 and 2008.
The young, especially, tend to compare French politicians unfavourably with their counterparts in Britain, Germany or the United States.
Germany says it will help Spain to launch German-style apprenticeships for its young people, half of whom are unemployed because of the debt crisis.
In Germany, a successfully apprenticeship system is cited as one reason why only 8% of young people are unemployed, compared with 22% in the United Kingdom.
应用推荐