The EU’s financial commitment to social infrastructure has enabled the EU to withstand the economic shock of the Covid-19 pandemic, with public spending on social services such as social protection, education and health accounting for 35% of GDP in 2020, Eurofound said in a new report on 17 August.
“The social services provided vital assistance and a network for people to get through the extraordinary limitations they faced in their daily lives”, says the Agency for the improvement...