László Andor the EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion has added his voice to the debate around inequality, social exclusion, falling wages, the dignity and legitimacy of working for little more than welfare rates and the millions of people trapped in poverty’s vicious pincher movement. He has also questioned governments’ commitment — or ability — to trying to protect the material security of the 124m Europeans at risk of poverty , the highest number in jeopardy since the foundation of the EEC in 1957.