Italian leader calls for unity in times of crisis

Report of a speech by Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti to a conference of religious and political leaders in Bosnia on the 9 September 2012.

EurActiv reported that he called for a summit in Rome to discuss divisions fuelled by the eurozone debt crisis. Such a summit should discuss the rise of anti-European populism, divisions between north and south, and nationalistic prejudices that have been fed by resentment against austerity measures during the almost three-year-old crisis.