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“No development model will be able to find a solution to unemployment,” he says bluntly, citing the grim reality that at about 800,000 are already unemployed and another 100,000 enter the labour force every year. “The best we can do is create 100,000 jobs a year but you still have the 800,000. The solution should be immigration. There’s no other way.”

But to where?

The government also has raised with European partners the prospect of absorbing some of the highly skilled graduates. But while immigration could alleviate some of the pressure, surely it cannot be the solution.

The average cost of Tunisia's external debt is nearly 4%, and is mainly denominated in euros and US dollars.

Today, Tunisia’s situation under the troika comes down to the fact that the country is borrowing to consume and not to invest.

Another fact that will render paying off the debt more difficult is that the redeemable portion of the foreign debt within 10 to 20 years or more is 81.3 % of all loans taken from abroad.