At the beginning of May, the European Commission will present its first Anti-Poverty Strategy. It follows the European Union’s commitment to eradicate poverty by 2050.
In Europe, poverty is the reality for millions of people. While the European Union has not been passive before this emergency, with important measures being taken in the last decades – from the Lisbon Strategy to the Porto Summit, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the Child Guarantee – the approach to poverty has always been confined to silos, treated more like a merely economic issue, rather than as a violation of people’s social rights.
But as poverty does not exist in isolation, so policies to address it should not work separately from anti-discrimination and equality policies, as the fragmentation always leads to leaving someone behind. In this Progressive Post dossier, we examine the challenges ahead, hoping that the upcoming strategy will be up to the task.
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