Rome to host next EU summit on youth jobs

(ANSA) – Paris, November 12 – The next European Union summit on youth unemployment will take place in Rome “in the first six months” of next year, Italian Premier Enrico Letta said Tuesday.

Speaking after an EU youth unemployment summit in Paris, the premier added that hosting the next summit in the Italian capital “is proof of confidence (in Italy) and a great opportunity for the country that we need to exploit to the maximum”. Diplomatic sources told ANSA that the summit will likely be held in April. Italy’s youth unemployment is above 40% and rising, while it is close to 60% in Spain and Greece. The youth jobs summit will be the third in a series since the first installment in Berlin in July. At the summit in Paris Tuesday, more than 20 EU leaders engaged in fine-tuning measures laid out in Berlin, such as a guarantee to provide training or a job opportunity for every young person who has been jobless for over four months.