While all Member States have social safety nets in place, these incomes are not equally accessible across the EU to those who need them, be they young people, the working poor or people with disabilities. Minimum incomes are also not always adequate and adapted to the realities of life.
This is what the Commission will try to improve on 28 September with an EU Council recommendation on ‘adequate minimum incomes’ in the EU, which should, among other things, set a 2030 target for Member...