In most European countries, the average income of people over 65 is lower than that of the total population, according to the OECD. In several cases, elderly incomes fall below 80% of the national ...

More than 72 million people in the EU were classed "at risk of poverty" in 2024, representing 16.2% of the population. Even so, living on the breadline looks vastly different when comparing poverty ...

In the past three years, at least 11 EU countries have seen an increase in poverty levels. Women and young adults are more likely to face poverty or social exclusion. Over one in five people in the ...

France is one of the few European countries where poverty rates have increased over the past decade. According to the latest Eurostat data, Paris has reported an almost 2% increase since 2014 in the ...

The cost of menstrual products remains a little-discussed form of inequality, even though it affects large numbers of women and girls in wealthy Western European countries as well as in the Balkans.