Overview
- The Commission presented its first EU-wide anti-poverty strategy in Brussels on Wednesday, pairing a 2030 target to cut those at risk by at least 15 million with a 2050 goal to end poverty.
- The package centers on jobs, child support such as access to schooling, health care, childcare and school meals, and disability inclusion through an EU-wide card and barrier-free travel.
- Housing is a core plank, with calls for more affordable and social homes plus prevention programs that use early warnings and counseling to stop people losing housing.
- No new EU cash comes with the launch, and delivery rests on national governments using existing funds like the European Social Fund Plus and backing a proposed €100 billion in the next long-term budget.
- Officials frame the push as urgent as about 93 million people face poverty or social exclusion, and Commissioner Roxana Mînzatu links recent price spikes to the Strait of Hormuz blockade.