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European Union leaders will hold a summit later this month to tackle the growing scourge of youth unemployment.

European Commissioner for Competition, Joaquin Almunia, addresses the media, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. The European Union says it has fined Danish pharmaceuticals multinational Lundbeck and several other producers a combined 146 million euros ($195 million) for delaying the market entry of cheaper generic alternatives to a major antidepressant to capitalize profit at the expense of patients. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

An employee of the Greece state broadcaster ERT gives instructions in front of monitors in the control room at the television station's headquarters in Athens, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday as the political storm over the future of public broadcaster ERT rages on despite a court ruling that the prime minister's decision to pull the plug was wrong. Fired ERT workers have continued live broadcasts streamed online and satellite, helped by the Geneva, Switzerland-based European Broadcasting Union, which represents the continent's public broadcasters. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A file photo of a protester in a field of genetically modified (GM) rapeseed crops in Warwickshire, England, on March 9, 2002. The European Union's relatively stringent GM regulations are cast in a different light by research to be presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s 2013 annual meeting in August 2013. (Sion Touhig/Getty Images)

Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed confers with Lodewijk Briet, the European Union Head of Delegation to Kenyan June19, 2013 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Nairobi during a breakfast meeting .Ms Mohammed said Kenyan officials held in Lagos following the deportation of a Nigerian suspected of drug trafficking had the necessary travel documents. WILLIAM OERI

A feeling in France that the European Union no longer works in its interest is fueling tensions between Paris and Brussel.

Leaders of the G8 and European Union.

Canada's regulatory control over its banking system could come under pressure as the government tries to land a free trade deal with the European Union, argues economist Scott Sinclair. But any changes could come with a price, like that being paid by Belgian-Dutch Fortis Bank, which was restructured during the financial crisis, prompting Chinese investors to sue Belgium. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)

European Union's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton visits a local NGO in Beirut's southern suburbs, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (The Daily Star/HO)

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, right, meets with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, left, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.(AP Photo/Dalati Nohra)