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EU leaders pledge to reduce inequalities 1 minute read
Porto, Portugal, May 8 (EFE).- European Union leaders on Saturday vowed to tackle inequality in the region and develop the European Pillar of Social Rights, which they considered a “fundamental” element of the bloc’s post-pandemic recovery.
“We are committed to reducing inequalities, defending fair wages, fighting social exclusion and tackling poverty,” read the Porto Declaration, which was adopted by the leaders of the EU members during the Social Summit held in the Portuguese city.
“We will step up efforts to fight discrimination and work actively to close gender gaps in employment, pay and pensions, and to promote equality and fairness for every individual in our society,” the declaration added.
Mitsotakis: Creating new jobs in Greece means attracting more investments
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The government has “managed to keep the unemployment rate at pre-COVID-19 levels,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the informal European Union Summit in Portugal when speaking at a moderated workshop on work and employment.
Mitsotakis pointed out that “spending money to protect jobs during a pandemic is a good investment and the right choice (…) but the transition from protecting jobs to creating new ones is a very different exercise, and much more complicated.”
Creating new jobs in Greece entails investments, not just consumption, he said, which means that Greece “must become a more attractive investment destination”.
European Commissioner for Employment and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit, underlined on Friday (7 May) that it is a real problem that "too few" social rights exist, calling for a collective duty of the EU to provide concrete answers to citizens.
Relations with Russia not brought up at EU summit in Porto - source
The discussions focused on the issues of development and social construction in the European Union, the fight against the pandemic, vaccination acceleration and the access to vaccines worldwide
BRUSSELS, May 8. /TASS/. European Union leaders did not touch upon relations with Russia at the Social Summit in Porto, Portugal, on Saturday, a diplomatic source in Brussels told TASS. There was no discussion about Russia, since it had been scheduled for the next European Council meeting (the EU summit in Brussels on May 25 - TASS) and at the European Council [at the Foreign Affairs Council on May 10], the diplomat said.