On Monday 16 October, ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the European Statistical Office, Eurostat published encouraging figures on the fight to eradicate poverty, with another consecutive fall since 2012 in the proportion of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU. This figure fell to 23.4%, which is now at a level lower than its 2008 figure.
17.2% of the EU population in 2016 were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, which includes income...