European Union leaders are no longer planning to meet early next month to discuss the unemployment crisis in the bloc, an Italian government official said on Wednesday.
Italy holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU until the end of the year and was expected to host the summit on October 8, possibly in Milan.
“We have been forced to postpone the event, which unfortunately will not take place on the foreseen date,” Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova said in a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
The jobs meeting had already been postponed once, as it was initially scheduled to take place in Turin on July 11.
There was no immediate information about a possible new date.
