On Friday 29 January, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, called on the European Union to rethink its socio-economic governance, while ensuring that the post-Covid-19 recovery contributes to reducing poverty and inequality, when he presented the preliminary conclusions of his assessment of the EU's progress in the fight against poverty, inequality and social exclusion.
The EU’s legal and political framework “is ill-suited to combat...