Brussels, 25/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - The charity Caritas Europe has warmly welcomed the European Commission's new social agenda, describing it as bearing witness to commitment to ensure more people benefit from employment (see EUROPE of 7 February pp. 7/8), stressing that having a job is the best way of fighting poverty, but is not sufficient.
In a press release, Caritas points out that around 15% of European citizens live below the poverty line, nearly half of this number (7%) known as...