On 29 June, the annual EAPN Policy Conference will take place. This time around we will have a timely discussion of the further impacts of a continuing COVID-19 pandemic on poverty, but also look at how the green and digital transitions of the EU will impact people at risk of social and economic exclusion in…
With the upcoming Porto Social Summit, EAPN welcomes the intention to reinforce the commitment from Member States, European institutions, Social Partners and Civil Society to the implementation of the Action Plan for the European Pillar of Social Rights (AP/EPSR). Nevertheless, EAPN must demand more ambition to face the challenges that lay ahead. The Action Plan…
In February 2020, 9 Universities and 3 Social Rights Institutions – including EAPN – met for the first time to kick off the Horizon 2020 project: Working Yet Poor. One year later, the project has published a video of Working Yet Poor (WorkYP) partners discussing the complexity of the working poverty phenomenon. “In Europe, there…
Looking back and looking forward In 2020, EAPN celebrates its 30th anniversary. Over three decades, EAPN has become the largest European network of anti-poverty NGOs and grassroots organisations and during these years, we have consistently been fighting to end poverty across Europe. Yet way too many people still face the serious burden of poverty and…
Poverty and inequality are rising again with the COVID-19 pandemic which has deepened existing inequalities. Certain groups were always disproportionately at risk of poverty and social exclusion, such as children, single parents (mainly women), people with disabilities, the long-term unemployed, migrants, and black and minority ethnic groups. It is these groups of people who are…
17 October – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty | #EndPoverty #PovertyWatch October 17 marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Now, more than ever, the situation calls for urgent action. Amid the Covid pandemic, the most vulnerable in our societies face the greatest challenges. EAPN and our members are concerned that…
The President of the Commission issued her first State of the Europe Union (SOTEU) address last week. While the SOTEU recognised that we live in a period of ‘profound anxiety for millions who are concerned about the health of their families, the future of their jobs or simply just getting through until the end of…
In May 2020 EAPN issued a Position Paper on Adequate Income. It presents and updates EAPN’s priorities, proposals and demands in view of adequate income, covering both adequate minimum income (MI) and fair minimum wages (MW), including living wages, largely building upon earlier policy work by EAPN and the EMIN Network. This summary document presents…
On 11 December 2019, the new Commission launched its proposals to launch a radical European Green Deal as the ‘new Green strategy for Growth and Jobs’, complemented by a Just Transition Mechanism and a Communication building a ‘strong social Europe for Just Transitions’. President Von der Leyen confirmed that the Green Deal must ‘leave nobody…
EAPN took an active part in the conference “Our Social Europe – Strong Together” on 16 September 2020. This conference, organised by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs under their presidency of the Council of the European Union was an opportunity to discuss: How can we use social and employment policy but…
