The map of poverty in Europe, or the visualization of 30 years of government failures
There are some images that, in their clear harshness, should make you think, but they don't. For example that of the situation of poverty in Europe, which shows how badly our country has been governed in the last 30 years. Let's move on to the numbers
In 2022, 95.3 million people in the EU (22% of the population) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, i.e. they lived in households exposed to at least one of the three risks of poverty and exclusion: income poverty, severe material and social deprivation and/or living in a household with very low work intensity (where adults work at less than 20% of their potential for one year).
As Anna Fleck of Statista reports, according to Eurostat data, this figure has remained relatively stable compared to the previous year (95.4 million in 2021, 22 percent of the population).
The proportion of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion varies considerably from one EU country to another.
The highest values were reported in Romania (34%), Bulgaria (32%), Greece and Spain (both 26), followed by Italy.
Conversely, the lowest percentages were recorded in the Czech Republic (12 percent), Slovenia (13 percent) and Poland (16 percent).
So we learn that:
- in three ex-eastern countries it is much less likely to be poor than in Italy;
- that two of these countries, not by chance, do not adopt the Euro and do not even intend to adopt it…
Draw your own conclusions about what has happened in Italy since 1992.
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