“We are barely making it,” admitted Roxana Mînzatu, the EU commissioner for social rights and skills, who presented a plan earlier this month to eradicate poverty by 2025 throughout the EU.
The EU affordable housing plan was conceived in crisis mode, mirroring the reactive logic of many national ‘housing crisis’ strategies: rushed, politically-driven, and shaped more by the need to be seen to act than by a deep understanding of the root of the problem.
THIS WEEK: Armenia plays host, as Canada’s Carney brings ‘middle power’ strategy to EuropeArmenia is hosting the eighth edition of the European Political Community (EPC) on Monday, where Canada’s Mark Carney is expected to attend. The EPC will be followed by the first-ever EU-Armenia summit on Tuesday.