Hiring of the first EAPN Director: Marie-Françoise Wilkinson (France) and she will stay as Director for twelve years (1990-2002). Election of the first EAPN President: Quintin Oliver (UK – Northern Ireland) and he will stay for two years (one mandate) as President (1990-1992). December – First General Assembly (Constituent)- Brussels: When the EU…
More than two hundred persons involved in anti poverty actions (mainly as a result of the anti-poverty programs) throughout the member states were brought together in June 1989 in Brussels with financial support from the Commission, organised by ESCAP. The gathering came to the conclusion that there was a need for a liaison structure between…
These programs were the result of an important achievement: the recognition that the fight against poverty and social exclusion should be a competence of the EU. As a sequence to the oil crisis in 1973 and its devastating consequences in several countries, the European Economic Community (EEC) decided to put in place programs. From 1975-1994…