The EU’s Poverty Target Needs Nearly Five Times 2025’s Progress
One in five people in the EU, 92.7 million in 2025, lives at risk of poverty or social exclusion, which Eurostat defines…
Signe Vale is editor of the Society section at ExtraFokus.eu and has 12 years of experience with the Europe that the statistics record but the politicians prefer to explain away: the real circumstances of families, cultural shifts and the changes in norms that happen before anyone gets to vote on them. Her analyses weave personal stories into data, because social problems do not live in spreadsheets but in everyday life. Signe Vale writes under a pseudonym to protect the families she interviews.
One in five people in the EU, 92.7 million in 2025, lives at risk of poverty or social exclusion, which Eurostat defines…
Ministers meeting in Luxembourg on 19 October are expected to adopt the homelessness recommendation, a Council text on housing exclusion, and it…
Signe Vale is editor of the Society section at ExtraFokus.eu and has 12 years of experience with the Europe that the statistics record but the politicians prefer to explain away: the real circumstances of families, cultural shifts and the changes in norms that happen before anyone gets to vote on them.
Her analyses weave personal stories into data, because social problems do not live in spreadsheets but in everyday life.
Signe Vale writes under a pseudonym to protect the families she interviews.
