Today, the Deputy Secretary General opened the conference marking the 30th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on the theme “Acting together to eradicate extreme poverty in Europe - Five years after the joint declaration made by the four pillars of the Council of Europe: results and prospects”, at the initiative of the President of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe, Anna Rurka, alongside Ambassador Emil Ruffer, Chair of the Ministers’ Deputies of the Council of Europe, and Giuseppe Palmisano, President of the European Committee of Social Rights.