15/01 – The National Assembly adopted the Universal Rental Guarantee (Gul). In a context of acute housing crisis, FNARS supports the government’s willingness to intervene to secure donors and help households to access and remain in their homes.
08/01/2014 Carlos Susías, the President of EAPN Spain, is one of the 500 most influential people in Spain in 2014, according to the El Mundo Spanish newspaper. He is also considered as one of the 25 most influential people in the alternative sector, i.e. significant people dedicated to civil society and citizens and social movements.
The cumulative impact of unemployment, service cuts, exclusions from eligibility for benefits and increases in costs for people on low income are deepening poverty and destitution. We need a new direction to create a more inclusive and equal Ireland.
17/01/2014 – A delegation from the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland, along with the Society of St Vincent de Paul, today met with the fact-finding mission from the European Parliament’s Economic and Finance Committee to discuss the legacy of the Economic Adjustment Programme agreed between the ‘Troika’ and the Irish Government.
Dec 2013 – The effects of the Greek financial crisis, the rate of layoffs, the increasing rate of taxation, pay cuts and pensions reductions, the recorded loss of property due to lack of ability to repay bank loans along with the general financial insecurity arising from pension reforms, have created an unusual alarming phenomenon: the rise of poverty and precarious conditions for a substantial amount of households in Greece that were self-sufficient up to now and are now facing the terrifying reality of homelessness.The publication gives key data on poverty in Greece and other EU countries. It goes along with a short 36-second video.
24/12/2013 – As part of the joint initiative Decent Minimum Income with other stakeholders, the MAPP held its 3rd Meeting of People experiencing poverty and social exclusion under the tile of “Dignified life for all citizens” in Hotel Porta, in Skopje. The main goals of the meeting were to ensure democratic debate amongst all concerned parties and active involvement in decision making for people living in poverty and social exclusion.
09-10/12/2013, The “Housing First International Conference: Ending homelessness” will be held in Lisboa, at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
EAPN France and its members, as well as EAPN, support the European Elections Campaign “Making Europe more social and supportive: it does concern me! Europe is about us!” which has a common approach towards several non-profit associations and organisations.
04/11 – As part of the annual ‘Living Wage Week’, the Scottish Living Wage Campaign and the Living Wage Foundation has announced the new living wage figure will be £7.65 an hour for the coming year, an increase of 20p. More than 400 companies and organisations across the UK are now officially accredited Living Wage Employers. Living Wage Week will highlight the benefits that the living wage brings for both companies and employees.
27/11 – Conference and participative forum on Inequalities and health with Richard Wilkinson, Why equality is better for everyone
15/11 – European Parliament Information Office Ireland and European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland Free Seminar on 40 years of Ireland and Social Europe, Looking back and looking forward.