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Catholic charity Caritas warns Europe austerity cuts 'hit poor hardest'
Toll of assault on welfare and economic collapse laid bare in new report
Catholic charity Caritas has warned that Europe's tidal wave of austerity had disproportionately hit the poor.
"Five years since the crisis began there is little or no growth, continuing increases in unemployment and millions living in poverty," the Caritas Europa network said.
In Greece, despite claims the country had turned a corner, Caritas identified "a tremendous impact of increases in taxation, reductions in social benefits including pensions, higher costs due to increased indirect taxes and rising unemployment."
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