Eurodiaconia, as part of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, has supported a written declaration in the European Parliament which aims to bring child poverty back on the agenda. It calls for a greater consideration of child well-being in macroeconomic policies, demands indicators on child poverty and urges the Member States to use EU funding to implement the Commission recommendation ‘Investing in children-Breaking the cycle of disadvantage’. With more than 400 Members of the European Parliament having signed, the declaration was closed with majority and will be forwarded to the European Commission and Council, thereby raising political awareness on the issue of child poverty in the European Union again.
The full text of the declaration can be accessed here.
The joint press release on the written declaration by the EU Alliance for Investing in Children can be accessed here.