{jathumbnail}Organised by the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union, with the support of the European Commission and of the European Anti-Poverty Network, the 10th European Meeting of People experiencing poverty entitled “Employment, Work, Jobs – The reality for people experiencing poverty” took place at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels, on 14-15 May.
This year’s meeting concluded with different priorities calling on the EU to, once again, focus on people rather than on competitiveness, stop cutting social spending and focus on a fairer distribution of wealth to fight poverty and ensure social cohesion.
- Read the full report in: English – French – Hungarian
- Full report also available in: Italian – German – Spanish
- Read the summary of the report in: Czech – Danish – Dutch – Estonian – Finnish – Greek – Italian – Lithuanian – Maltese – Polish – Portuguese – Slovak – Slovenian
- See the programme of the conference
- Watch the European Commission’s video
Each national delegation presented a creation of its own, on the topic on employment, either as a visual presentation or as a live performance:
- Austria: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Belgium: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Bulgaria: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Czech Republic: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Denmark: see the presentation in pdf here
- Estonia: see the presentation in pdf here
- Finland: see the presentation in pdf here
- France: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Germany: watch the video here
- Greece: watch the video here
- Hungary: see the presentation in pdf here
- Italy: watch the video here
- Ireland: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Lithuania: see the presentation in pdf here
- Malta: see the presentation in pdf here
- Netherlands: watch the video here
- Norway: see the presentation here in pdf
- Poland: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Portugal: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Slovakia: see the presentation in pdf here
- Slovenia: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- Spain: see the pictures in the Picasa album and the presentation in pdf here
- Sweden: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- UK: see the pictures in the Picasa album
- The Hungarian Presidency has now issued its (2-page) report of the 10th European Meeting of People experiencing poverty to the Council. Download it here on PDF.
