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A shop where everything is free
The new chain to promote new products and help the population, the Spanish edition of Romanian daily Adevarul reported.
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“The first shop in Europe where all items are free opens in Barcelona today,” reported the Spanish edition of Romanian daily Adevarul on 15 October.
Access to this new chain that goes under the name of shops Esloultimo is subject to a half-yearly subscription of 5 euros, after which clients can choose 5 products every fortnight. “The goal is to promote both new products and to help a large part of the population,” wrote Adevarul, which announced that similar ventures will open in Paris, London, Berlin, Rome and Amsterdam.
All this coincided with 17 October’s World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty. In Europe, reported Spanish daily Público on 16 October, “79 million people live in poverty”.
Such were the themes of at the heart of a Round Table on Poverty and Social Exclusion, held in Stockholm on 15 October. Representatives from NGO’s denounced the absence of political will in the adoption of concrete measures. “The objectives of the fight again poverty have been pushed back to 2020,” concedes Antonia Carparelli, Head of Social Inclusion Unit at the European Commission, reported the Spanish daily.
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