European Anti-Poverty Network: EAPN Europe meets European Commission Vice President Dombrovskis
EAPN President, Sérgio Aires and Barbara Helfferich, Director of EAPN met with European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis for an exchange of views on the better integration of social objectives in the European Semester. EAPN underlined that the European Semester must ensure that economic and social objectives were equally important and that the country specific recommendations should be used to help reduce poverty. EAPN President Sérgio Aires warned that the current approach was creating more poverty putting not only at risk people’s livelihoods and quality of life, but also risking social cohesion. Vice President Dombrovskis said that it was important that the fight against poverty remained on the European agenda.
