SOCIAL - CULTURE / Social

European Parliament will try to raise EU’s level of ambition regarding minimum income and poverty

Brussels, 10/10/2022 (Agence Europe)

The European Parliament wants to be much more ambitious than the European Commission on the issue of the adequacy of minimum incomes and will specifically try to ask the Commission to issue a directive on the subject; its recommendation, as presented on 28 September, is already deemed to be insufficient by several groups (see EUROPE B13031A21).

This is the aim of one of the co-rapporteurs of the European Parliament resolution that is currently being prepared on minimum income in the EU,...