Stagnations and wide discrepancies

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• Primary Source

Eurostat: Social protection http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/social-protection/overview

Eurostat: News Release, No.188, 2017: Social protection in 2015. Almost one-third of EU GDP spent on social protection http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/8510280/3-08122017-AP-EN.pdf/

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