“The agreement with which the EU Council closed includes two points: energy and the fight against tax evasion. It's a good deal." Thus the Prime Minister Enrico Letta began the press conference in Brussels after the extraordinary summit of the 27, dedicated to the fight against tax evasion and energy.
On the subject of energy, “there is an awareness that the recent discoveries of the United States have created a competitive asymmetry” said the Italian premier. By 2014, the internal energy market will be completed and by 2015, European networks will develop. Automatic information exchanges will start in 2013.
Letta also announced that the next EU Council, to be held in June, will focus on the issue of youth unemployment. “We have a month to prepare and work on the most acute emergency and try not to waste this opportunity,” she said. European labor ministers will meet in Berlin in July to discuss the practices that are used in each country to curb this phenomenon. "It's an excellent start - said Letta - because this is the theme that we have set as a central question both in the immediate future and in the future". The premier also declared that on May 31st Herman Van Rompuy will be in Rome.
