Brussels, 22/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - The Employment/Social Affairs Council on 21 October approved the opinion of the social protection committee (SPC) on social protection and social inclusion in the Europe 2020 strategy.
The main difficulties encountered by member states in setting their national targets on social exclusion and poverty reduction include the current budgetary constraints, the availability of statistics, the difficulty to quantify targets for specific policy measures and...