2000
Election of the 5th President: Ludo Horemans (Belgium) and he will stay for three years (one mandate) as President (2000-2003). The mandates of the Bureau were enlarged from two to…
1999
Helsinki Conference calls for Social Inclusion Strategy: An important conference that prepared the road for the Lisbon Strategy (2000) to declare a strong focus on Social Inclusion. Introduction of a…
1998
Sweden National Network joins EAPN 9th GA – Porto (Portugal): It is considered to be one of the most memorable GA’s of EAPN. The Portuguese network organised at the…
1997
Establishment of the EAPN Structural Funds Task Force: This working group meeting 3 times a year followed an area crucial for the fight against poverty will run between 1997 and…
1996
European court blocks the 4th EU Anti-Poverty Programme: The final decision of not having a 4th European anti-poverty programme came only in 1996. Despite the efforts made to keep the…
1995
Social Platform’s creation: Social Platform was established in 1995 and brings together around forty European non-governmental organisations, federations and networks which are working to build an inclusive society and promote…
1994
Establishment of the Social Policy Task Force: This was a crucial working group of EAPN, responsible for the advocacy work of the organisation and for the dialog with the institutions.…
1993
End of the 3rd European Anti-Poverty Programme: By the end of “Poverty III” the understandable expectations were that the establishment of a European anti-poverty strategy (called informally as “Poverty IV”)…
1992
Publication of the first “Networks News”: Between April 1992 and January 2001, 80 issues were published; from April 1995, “Network News” started to be published in Spanish as well as…
1991
EAPN Working Group on Minimum Income and Access to Services would exist between 1991 and 1993. Meeting 4 times with core group of six people, and once with eight representatives…