This document reproduces the full EAPN response to the questionnaire prepared by the European Commission, according to the "Guidelines to the stakeholders' contribution to the 2012 Report on the follow-up on the 2008 Recommendation on Active Inclusion" (1 March 2012).The response was prepared together with the EAPN EU Inclusion Strategies group through e-mail contributions, drawing on EAPN recent surveys assessing the implementation of Active Inclusion.

EAPN responds to the European Commission’s legislative proposals regarding the future of Structural Funds, to make sure that Cohesion Policy will fully deliver on the poverty reduction target.

With this paper, EAPN provides an in-depth analysis of the causes and impacts of the crisis, and solid proposals on how to get out of this crisis, ‘together’. Focusing on solutions to take and on the need to build alternative social and sustainable solutions, EAPN puts forward 10 steps for an inclusive Europe, and how to do it.

Last week, EAPN sent its response to the Annual Growth Survey and Draft Employment Report to the Employment Committee and Social Protection Committee (EMCO and SPC), prior to their discussions on their opinion on the AGS, urging for a more coherent approach to implementing the poverty target, in the light of the dominant focus on austerity measures and fiscal consolidation and concrete proposals to deliver on the new social priority 4 in the AGS.

On 21 December, EAPN submitted its response to the stakeholder consultation organized by the SPC adhoc group on Child Poverty, following the stakeholder meeting held on the 14th December.The Adhoc group was set up to advise the Commission in developing the 2012 Recommendation on Child Poverty.

EAPN Analysis of the 2011 National Reform Programmes, Europe 2020

2011 marks the first operational year of the new Europe 2020 Strategy, committed to delivering inclusive, as well as smart and sustainable growth.