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The European Child Guarantee is the European Union’s political and social response to one of the most systemic threats: child poverty and social exclusion.
It is based on the understanding that without children's access to education, healthcare, nutrition, family environment, and housing, our wider societies and the foundation of democracy as a whole are placed at risk.
For EU member states, this is already an established mechanism that is prioritised as a fundamental priority for a functioning nation, for Ukraine it is a mechanism that requires action amidst the challenges of war.
Ukraine, still at the stage of EU candidate status, has taken an exceptional step: voluntarily joining this framework.
What marks this as a seminal moment is that th
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