EU jobs summit in doubt over schedule complications

An emergency summit on employment that EU leaders were slated to hold in early October has been postponed, a French government spokesman said on Wednesday, although Italian officials said they expected the meeting to go ahead. The summit in Italy, announced at the end of August as worries mounted over the sluggish pace of economic recovery in Europe, was postponed due to timing problems, said spokesman Stephane Le Foll.
Earlier, Benedetto Della Vedova, an under-secretary in the Italian Foreign Ministry, said the meeting was still being discussed. "The summit has not yet formally been called and there has been no agenda yet defined," he told the European Parliament in Strasbourg.