Growing poverty highlighted by charity

Every fourth citizen of the European Union is now poverty-stricken or socially excluded, while a tenth of all inhabitants are caught in “total poverty”, according to the Catholic Church’s Caritas-Europa organisation. writes Jonathan Luxmoore.

“Six years after it began in 2008, the economic crisis is still leaving its mark on residents and EU economies – in addition to enormous debt levels, with very little economic growth. There are huge numbers of unemployed people and millions living in poverty or at risk of poverty,” the network’s 2015 Crisis Monitoring Report said.

“The EU and its member states continue to address the ongoing crisis by focusing mainly on economic policies at the expense of social policies.”