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EU leaders divided on how to tackle joblessness

Milan summit will focus on youth unemployment, which afflicts 21.6% of people under 25 across Europe

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Published Wed, Oct 8, 2014 · 09:50 PM

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SEVENTEEN years after their first jobs summit, European Union leaders are divided on how to create employment with a fifth of young people still out of work.

At a meeting in Milan on Wednesday, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi plans to tout the new labour laws he's pushing through. French President Francois Hollande will argue for more spending, a proposal that German Chancellor Angela Merkel intends to reject. Britain's prime minister David Cameron isn't coming.

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