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Meeting in Madrid on May 6, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his Italian counterpart Enrico Letta agreed to "pressure" the EU to approve a youth unemployment plan at the European Council summit in June.
The two leaders also emphasised the need for new policies to combat populism and anti-European sentiment, which is increasingly prevalent in all EU countries.
La Vanguardia remarks that the "Italian-Spanish front is still alive", and eager to exert pressure on northern countries and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to proceed with the implementation of measures decided at the Rome summit in June 2012. These include the progressive introduction of a banking and budgetary union in the EU.
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