MEPs welcomed recommendations to introduce a Child Guarantee to combat child poverty, in an exchange with Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nicolas Schmit on Thursday 25 March.
A long-standing request of the European Parliament (see EUROPE B12083A11, EUROPE B11623A7), the Guarantee, presented the day before by the Commission (see EUROPE B12685A12), was—unusually—welcomed by all coordinators and group representatives, with some, such as Beata Szydło (ECR, Poland), describing...