Europe's minimum-income benefits do not raise single people above poverty lines
Only Denmark and Luxembourg have minimum income benefits above the poverty line, and only for couples or families with children.
18 days spent phoning every half an hour in the hope that someone would answer the Minimum Living Wage helpline
After 150 calls, the 151st attempt finally got through to an actual human being. The Ministry has assured us that to mitigate this problem, in the coming weeks they will take on an extra 195 staff for the Social Security helpline.
Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees with an asylum system that averages more than 15 months of delay
Ukrainian refugees now arrive under the aegis of the ultra-fast special protection system, but regular reception centres are piling up hundreds of thousands of applications and rejecting many.
Defense inflates its budget by more than one billion and total expenditure reaches 2012 levels
As with every year, the figures agreed on in the General State Budget do not correspond with actual expenditure.