2025年 歐洲2500萬人陷貧窮

2025年 歐洲2500萬人陷貧窮

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January 19, 2014 06:00 AM | 325 次 | 0  | 2  |  | 

Up to 25 million more Europeans are at risk of sinking into poverty by 2025 if governments push on with austerity●1 measures, international aid agency Oxfam warned, calling such policies "moral and economic nonsense".

國際救援組織「樂施會」警告，假如歐洲政府繼續推行撙節，到2025年歐洲將有2500萬以上的人陷入貧窮。樂施會譴責撙節政策「對道德與經濟都是一場胡鬧」。

"Europe's handling of the economic crisis threatens to roll-back decades of social rights," said Natalia Alonso, head of Oxfam's EU office.

樂施會歐洲分會負責人阿隆索說，「歐洲處理經濟危機的方式，恐怕讓社會權益倒退數十年」。

"Aggressive cuts to social security, health and education, fewer rights for workers and unfair taxation are trapping millions of Europeans in a circle of poverty●2 that could last for generations. It is moral and economic nonsense."

她說，「社會安全、醫療保健與教育權益激烈縮減，勞工權益緊縮與稅制不公，讓數百萬歐洲人陷入貧窮，而且恐怕延續好幾代人，這在道德與經濟上都是一場鬧劇」。

If left unchecked, austerity policies could put between 15 and 25 million more Europeans at risk of poverty by 2025, said the agency.

該會說，如果放任不管的話，到2025年撙節政策將造成1500萬至2500萬人陷入貧窮。

"This would bring the number of people at risk of poverty in Europe up to 146 million, over a quarter of the population, warned Oxfam.(AFP)

樂施會說，「到時歐洲貧窮人數將達1.46億人，超過歐洲總人口的四分之一」。（法新社）

詞解：

1.austerity：嚴厲，嚴格，緊縮，節制消費

2.poverty：貧窮，虛弱

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