“We have to try to get Europe to recognise a special status for our south, to allow us to launch extraordinary measures for development.” Italy EU Europe
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Wednesday he will ask the European Commission to give Italy’s poorer south a special status to help boost employment and tackle organised crime.
Special status would give the country’s southern regions preferential and direct access to some EU programmes.Over 1.8 million families were living in absolute poverty in the south in 2018, according to the latest Eurostat figures. “Youth unemployment in southern Italy exceeds 50 percent, there is a lack of investment, development policies and strategies to relaunch it,” the Five Star Movement’s members of the European parliament said in a statement.
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