UN rapporteur: EU recovery money should help fight poverty
(WorldNews Europe)

BRUSSELS (AP) — A top U.N. official urged the European Union to ensure that the huge amount of money set aside for pandemic recovery will benefit the many European citizens who have been plunged into poverty by the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19. EU member states agreed last year on a long-term coronavirus recovery fund worth 750 billion euros that should help member nations bounce back from Europe`s most brutal economic crisis since World War II. Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, noted that large swaths of...