Italy and other European Union countries are "unarmed" against unemployment, which the incoming European Commission should see as the major challenge it faces, populist premier Giuseppe Conte said on Friday.
"We are unarmed against the true emergency of our times, which in Italy and other eurozone countries is unemployment," Conte.
He was speaking at an event in Rome to mark the centenary of the International Labour Organisation.
"This is the challenge that the next European Commission must rise to," said Conte
"I hope that the new European institutions, the new Commission and the new Parliament, give priority to decent work and centre on this," Conte stated.
