European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion

Ireland: cheddar scones for a cheese crisis

The more we see the PIIGS as under-developed countries, the more the EU ends up sending them humanitarian aid rather than sustainable investments. The proof is in the pudding in Ireland, where the EU has invested 750, 000 euros of cheese to fight the crisis from 15 November. A Frenchman reacts

by Emmanuel Haddad @ // 12/11/10

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Young graduates: 'generation lost' describe ideal and worst jobs

People dream about their ideal job whilst working in the furthest removed ones. Four young Europeans from Paris and Athens via Brussels and Vienna speak

by cafebabel.com @ // 27/09/10

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A whopping 79 million Europeans are 'poor'

cafebabel discusses three main points for the '2010 European year for combating poverty and social exclusion'; and they all fit in with popular stereotypes. Those living in the east are poorer than those in the west, thanks to higher poverty thresholds. Women suffer more social exclusion than men, though groups like the divorced and separated fathers in Italy are fighting back. The most modern calamity in 2010 though comes in the form of an armada of graduates. The young unemployed are flooding the internship markets, keeping a more than beady eye on the average European minimum wage. The clock is striking, and dignity is no longer the chime; it remains a vain word for too many Europeans. Try that for a new stereotype

• Read the special edition A whopping 79 million Europeans are 'poor'
• Introducing Italian poet Vanni Santoni's 'precarious characters'
• Minimum European income to fight poverty?
• Europe’s graduates: lecture halls to poverty lines
• 'Conciliabules': French women fight for European poverty via theatre
• In Italy, divorced men are down and out
• Europe makes 2010 its year for fighting poverty and social exclusion