EU chided for not ensuring improved social rights at summit
May 7, 2021
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1of3Portugal s Prime Minister Antonio Costa gestures as he attends the opening ceremony of an EU summit at the Alfandega do Porto Congress Center in Porto, Portugal, Friday, May 7, 2021. European Union leaders are meeting for a summit in Portugal on Friday, sending a signal they see the threat from COVID-19 on their continent as waning amid a quickening vaccine rollout. Their talks hope to repair some of the damage the coronavirus has caused in the bloc, in such areas as welfare and employment.Luis Vieira/APShow MoreShow Less
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“The devastating impact of COVID-19 serves as a stark reminder that the European Union must put human lives over economic policies that privilege competition between EU Member States,” the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, said ahead of the EU Porto Social Summit on May 7.
The Porto Social Summit should endorse the Action Plan of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Europe’s flagship programme for addressing poverty and social exclusion in the coming decade, the Action Plan commits the EU to reducing the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion by 15 million by 2030, at least 5 million of whom should be children.