AT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW REGIONAL STRATEGY BASED MOSTLY ON GROWTH. 2020 EUROPE STRATEGY- TARGET ON POVERTY

In the attempt to understand how does the European Union want to develop in the following decade, it is important to find that all its plans took the shape of a new strategy, called The 2020 Europe Strategy. This paper aims to analyze the fifth target of the strategy, poverty and social exclusion and to see how does it is applied for Romania and how can the country diminish this indicator, leaving the last but not one place of the statistics regarding poverty, followed only by Bulgaria. In this respect, it is made a short analysis of the most important social indicators over the population at poverty or social exclusion, at risk of financial poverty, severe material deprivation or from very low work intensity households. The main conclusions were that Romania will continue to have a poor population as it is stated by the European indicators at more than 50% with less and less chances to target the 20% of the population in risk of poverty and social exclusion by the end of 2020.