Poverty and exclusion in Hungary have undergone significant improvement in the past decade, and the same trend is prevalent in the Eastern-Central European region as well. However, redistribution only favoured the wealthy “elite” segment of the population. All this has made Hungary into a country characterized by the most polarized inequalities, as well as the…
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Bulgaria continues to have very high levels of poverty and social exclusion. The country sustainably maintains some of the highest unfavourable levels among EU member-states in all significant and available indicators in this regard. Poverty Watch Main Findings 32.1% of the Bulgarians lived in poverty or social exclusion in 2020 Around one third of the Bulgarian citizens…
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2022 This year’s Poverty Watch Report gives an update on the meaning of poverty in light of Covid-19; on the energy crisis that began in 2021 and was doubly aggravated by the war between Russia and Ukraine which exploded again on February 24, 2022. The Poverty Watch 2022 is the result of a careful analysis…
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2022 Poverty Watch According to the latest measurements of the Czech Statistical Institute (CSI), the Czech Republic has more than 8.1% of people living in income poverty, which represents 901,200 inhabitants (9.5% in 2019, 10% in total). The decline, according to the statisticians, occurred in 2021 due to the fact that household incomes grew, albeit…
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2022 In this Poverty Watch report 2022, there was strong cooperation with Latvian state institutions in reducing poverty, as well as the priority issues related to poverty and social exclusion in Latvia and possible solutions, including in connection with the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the rising cost of energy resources. Read Latvia’s…
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2022 The last few years have been extremely difficult for Lithuania and the world. One crisis after another – the COVID-19 pandemic, the migrant crisis, rising energy prices, and the war in Ukraine. The effects of these crises are still being felt, and the outlook for the future is equally dim. Citizens, businesses, and politicians…
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2022 2022 will be the year of the war in Ukraine.Not only the enormous numbers of people who are killed, injured and suffer enormous psychological damage, also the enormous economic costs will continue to play an important role for a long time to come. As a result of this robbery, the prices for gas are…
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2021 In 2011, as part of the implementation of the EU 2020 Strategy, the Polish Government assumed that by 2020, the number of Poles living in poverty would be 1.5 million fewer. In the EU as a whole, this was to be 20 million fewer people. As EAPN Poland, we have repeatedly pointed out that…
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2022 After two years of the pandemic, there is an increase in the at-risk-of-poverty rate at the national level. A clear sign that the pandemic has worsened the social and economic situation of the Portuguese. Added to this scenario is a political crisis that led to new legislative elections in January and a war in…
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Romania has still both the highest poverty rate and the lowest relative poverty line1 of all EU member states. In 2017 to 2019 23.5% of the total resident population was at risk of poverty; this means that about 4.5 million people are at risk of income poverty. Inequality of opportunities remains one of the main challenges…
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