Austerity measures destroying EU social model: report

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released its World Social Protection report on the 3 June 2014, in which it revealed that austerity measures meant to pull Europe out of the crisis had also put some 800,000 children into poverty.

• Primary Source

International Labour Organisation: World Social Protection [Report, 2014] http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_245201.pdf

ESO: Background information: Retirees help out their crisis-hit kids http://www.europeansources.info/record/retirees-help-out-their-crisis-hit-kids/

ESO: Background information: Pitched battles flare at Brussels austerity protest http://www.europeansources.info/record/pitched-battles-flare-at-brussels-austerity-protest/

ESO: Background information: Charity documents 'human cost' of EU austerity http://www.europeansources.info/record/charity-documents-human-cost-of-eu-austerity/

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