Social exclusion

Over half of all households in poverty or at risk thereof

 Shocking report shows 6.3 million people in Greece affected

Three in every five Greeks, or some 6.3 million people, were living in poverty or under the threat of poverty in 2013 due to material deprivation and unemployment, a report by Parliament’s State Budget Office showed on Thursday.

EU supports social inclusion with over EUR 4 million

UZICE - The EU Delegation in Serbia has announced a call for proposals within the project “Support to the social inclusion of the most vulnerable groups, including Roma, through more diversified community-based social services”, which is funded with EUR 4.35 million from the EU Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) funds.

Greece saw biggest rise in at-risk-of-poverty rate from 2011 to 2013, EC says


Greece saw the biggest rise in the European Union between 2011 and 2012 in terms of the proportion of its population that is at risk of poverty, according to the European Commission's latest Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review, which was published on Monday.

Draft ESRP ready for debate

BELGRADE - The Serbian government's team for social inclusion and poverty reduction, Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Policy and the Office for Cooperation with the Civil Society called on all interested organizations to submit comments on the draft of the first part of the Employment and Social Reform Program (ESRP) until March 26.

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