Review of the book : [recenzija]

Abstract

The reduction of the number of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU is one of the key targets of the Europe 2020 strategy. According to Eurostat'44, in 2011, 119,6 million people, or 24.2% of the population in the 27 countries members of European Union were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, compared with 23.4% in 2010 and 23.5% in 2008. This means that they were at least in one of the following three conditions: at-risk-of-poverty, severely materially deprived or living in households with very low work intensity, Eurostat states OECD declares Spain and Greece having respectively 21.8% and 17.9% of unemployment in 2011 (in France - 9.3%) while in youth population the unemployment in Spain and Greece touch respectively 44.4% and 46.4% of unemployment (in France - 22.1%, Italy - 29.1% etc.). According Eurostat 4 \ during 2010 about 3,1 million people immigrated into one of the EU Member States, while at least 2,0 million emigrants were reported to have left an EU Member State. <...> the United Kingdom reported the largest number of immigrants (591,000) in 2010, followed by Spain (465,200) and Italy (458,900); <...> Spain reported the highest number of emigrants in 2010 (403,000). Most EU Member States reported more immigration than emigration in 2010, but in Ireland, Greece, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and the three Baltic Member States emigrants outnumbered immigrants. Moreover, 800,000 people may be trafficked across international borders annually, with many more trafficked within the borders of their own countries '46. It will be observed that this statistic is the only small fragment in the wave of global societal data.