Brussels, 07/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - Since the launch of the Lisbon strategy in March 2000, the European Council has called on member states and the European Commission to take measures for creating large-scale eradication of poverty by 2010. As part of the preparation for an own-initiative report on promoting social integration and the fight against poverty in the EU, the EP's employment and social affairs committee organised a public hearing on Wednesday 2 April on measures to fight...