The European Commission says it has a strategy to eradicate poverty in the EU by 2050.
But it also concedes that even getting 15 million people out of deprivation over the next four years appears far-fetched.
“We are barely making it,” said Roxana Mînzatu, the EU commissioner for social rights and skills.
Speaking to MEPs on Wednesday (20 May) at the plenary in Strasbourg, Mînzatu said that only 3.7 million Europeans have been taken out of poverty. The total estimated number is 92 million.
Mînzatu is banking that her plan, proposed earlier this month, will reduce those numbers to near zero by 2050.
