Brussels, 20/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - As follow-up to the Lisbon Summit in March, the European Commission has adopted a new Community programme with the objective of establishing comparable means of measuring poverty, helping Member States cooperate in drawing up national action plans to fight poverty and assisting the networking of social partners and civil society.
The budget for the five-year programme is EUR 70 million. It is open to applicant states and seeks to attain three...