Pinch of Poverty: Millions in EU forced to live close to breadline (VIDEO)

The Middle Class is disappearing across Europe due to EU austerity measures (VIDEO)


Over 20% of the European Union are living in poverty (VIDEO)






Over 20 per cent of Europe's population is at risk of poverty. Bulgaria is one of the EU's most impoverished countries, with nearly half its population living close to the bread line.


Romania is not far behind, where four out of ten find it hard to make ends meet. In bailed-out Greece, slightly over 30 per cent of the population struggle to meet financial demands.


And, about the same percentage of people in Spain
 and Italy are under pressure from harsh austerity measures.


RT's Egor Piskunov went to a food bank in Rome where essential provisions are handed out to the city's poorest.