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Spanish PM wants unused EU funds to counter unemployment

26.01.12 @ 15:03

By EUOBSERVER

Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy tabled proposals "on top of the Franco-German"idea to set up a "fund for growth and competitiveness" out of unspent EU regional funds, so that these would also be used for "employment programmes", he said in Berlin. Spain's youth unemployment is the highest in Europe.