How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …

poverty is considerable but limited. In general the results indicate where policy interventions can produce improvements. …

remedy in the later phase of the cycle. Poverty, inequality, exclusion and social protection indicators are needed to address …