Brussels, 13/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - This Monday 13 December, Eurostat presented a new publication on issues of poverty and social exclusion, health and education. The study, “Income and living conditions in Europe”, highlights the following results for 2008 in the EU of 27:
(1) Income poverty: 81 million people (or 17% of the population) were at risk of poverty after taking account of social transfers, meaning that their income was below the national at-risk-of-poverty threshold. The...