The European Union’s SURE instrument, which aims to mitigate the social effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, has supported 31 million people and 2.5 million businesses, according to the instrument’s second implementation report published by the European Commission on Wednesday 22 September.
This represents more than a quarter of total employment in the beneficiary Member States, states the report, equating to about 22.5 million employees and 8.5 million self-employed people in 2020 under...