have been declining over the years and the reason for this is economy the sterett this is now also don't see that we should repeat don't bend rethink significantly and we should now invest in people after all of investing in health care education only childhood is the best investment one can make and i really don't understand the protease as they have been said for the past few years was you know the governments of europe say what is important has been bailing out bankers the financial ization of economies and also the fact is that there are pouring money into social services albeit outsourced privatized ones in and you must be aware as well and i'm sure you are aware a special report that many will say how do you arrive at these figures and those relative poverty even mean anything you'll note that the right wing press often says we should just retreat to absolute poverty rather than relative poverty these people are not really poor. well what is true is that it's the 21 percent of the european population that is at risk of poverty and or social exclusion including people who are relati