When it comes to social justice, Sweden, Denmark and Finland rank top three spots at the 28 EU states according to a new study by the German foundation Bertelsmann Stiftung.

The EU Social Justice Index investigates poverty reduction, access to education and the labour market, health, generational justice, social cohesion and non-discrimination.

Children and young people have been hit the hardest by the European economic and debt crisis. In the EU, some 26 million children and young people – or 27.9 per cent of the population under 18 – are threatened by poverty or social exclusion. The future prospects of the 5.4 million young people who are neither employed nor in education or training are similarly bleak. The social justice gap in Europe runs most strongly between north and south and between young and old.

Read the full report: www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de

Source: www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de
Photo:  Social Justice Index Report 2015