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Still many challenges ahead to achieve gender equality

MEPs assessed the progress made in women’s rights over the past 25 years and the many challenges still ahead, in a resolution adopted on...

MEPs: Minimum wage is a remedy for inequality and in-work poverty

To fight inequality and in-work poverty, MEPs call for a minimum wage, equal labour conditions for platform workers and a better work-life balance. The principle...

Parliament supports far-reaching measures to combat inequality

Left MEP leads charge against against in-work poverty With the EU failing to meet its 2020 target to lift 20 million citizens out of poverty,...

EESC : “The ambitious goal of reducing poverty by 50% can be achieved by 2030”

The UN's special envoy on poverty, Olivier De Schutter, participated in the January plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), revealing...

Caritas Europa: We call for EU to show solidarity with next budget agreement

On the occasion of Europe Day, May 9th, Caritas Europa calls on EU leaders to agree well before the end of 2020 on an...

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The European far-right challenges the ICC: Orbán, Wilders and Salvini defend Netanyahu

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced today that he...

EESC study: The EU needs a pan-European policy response to its housing crisis

The increased use of digitalisation in the construction and...

Lithuanian PM calls EU and NATO to ‘appropriate’ respond to Baltic Sea cable damage

EU and NATO countries must take appropriate action in...

European Commission welcomes inclusion of Albania and Montenegro in the Single Euro Payments Area

Today, Montenegro and Albania took a significant step in...

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