"The usual arguments for reducing poverty are social ones, but the Commissioner, Laszlo Andor, is an economist who has worked for organisations from trade unions to the World Bank and uses a different context.
While social affairs, including poverty, is not a power member states have given to the EU, Andor points out that a problem in one EU country can have serious affects for another.
He warns of social instability and says that like problems in the world of finance, social problems can spread across borders too.
EU leaders missed this point, or were not interested in it, when they sat around their summit table to discuss the economic state of the union last Thursday and Friday."
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