Re: Even a Green MEP feels Duped by the EU
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I see the EU minimum wage is coming. I take it you are in favour of Brussels telling everyone how much they get paid in each country.
The European Commission will propose tomorrow (18 April) introducing a minimum salary in countries like Germany where it does not exist yet, and raise wages where they are considered too low, according to a draft seen by EURACTIV.
Having a job is not a recipe against poverty in Europe. Indeed, more than 8% of European workers live with salaries that keep them below the poverty threshold, EU figures show.
“The risk of in-work poverty is high, particularly in countries with uneven earnings distribution and low minimum wages, among people with temporary contracts and in low work intensity and single parent households,” reads the Commission communication, ‘Towards a job-rich recovery’, which the EU executive will publish on Wednesday.
Seems a good idea to me, pity you had to put your demented bias on it, but what can one expect?