Anna Diamantopoulou met in Brussels with the Minzatu work Commissioner.

The executive vice -president of the Commission and work Commissioner has one of the most difficult portfolios, as he is called upon to lead the EU effort. To face tectonic changes in conditions and conditions of work, the effects of artificial intelligence that will eliminate whole professions, and the reduction of child poverty.

OR Commissioner He has already shown important work and has taken initiatives on the need for 27 EU countries. Emphasize the school to the skills needed in the new era.

For her part, Anna Diamantopoulou-who had taken over the corresponding portfolio in the European Commission between 1999-2004-during the meeting stressed the need not to be trapped by the EU. “In a dilemma between investment in defense and the welfare state,” and that the vulnerable social groups are left behind. He emphasized that “despite political commitments, the percentage of children at risk of poverty or social exclusion increased from 19.5% in 2021 to 24.8% in 2023, and remains alarmingly high to 24.2% in 2024. This course directly threatens the goals of the European Pillar of Social Rights and undermines the European Pillar of Social Rights”.

PASOK’s political planning officer also referred to the inaction of the ND government in the face of the problems of the most weak social groups, reflected in the fact that our country has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the entire EU, and this percentage is increasing.

Finally, the two women discussed that the Diamantopoulou exhibition for the welfare state could be incorporated into the political priorities of the Union, as well as the Draghi report, which both emphasize the above issues.