European cohesion : Progress at a snail's pace
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung - Berlin
2019
5 p.
social inequality ; poverty ; social cohesion ; EU policy
Income distribution
English
"Both Europe-wide inequality and the at-risk-of-poverty rate again fell slightly from 2016 to 2017. This was largely due to the strong growth in the poorer new EU member states between the Baltic and the Balkans. In particular, the number of people below the poverty threshold of 60 per cent of European median income fell by several million. Inequality and the at-risk-of-poverty rate Europe-wide, however, remained well above the level in individual EU member states."
Digital
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