Welfare minister urges Brussels to step up child poverty prevention

Decisive action is required to combat child poverty in the European Union, with current estimates putting quarter of the EU’s infant population – 20 million children – at risk, deputy minister of social welfare Clea Hadjistefanou-Papaellina said on Monday.

“The timing is particularly important, as the first ever EU anti-poverty strategy is to be presented during our Presidency,” she said.

Chairing the council on social policy, consumer affairs, employment and health, whose...