News from EAPN Greece
- The EU crisis from a Greek perspective… A foot in the grave
- EAPN Greece also wishes to share the following article: Save the Greeks from their Saviours!
EAPN Spain
- 15 March, New Proposals for New Times
- Spanish Red Cross publishes Annual Report on Social Vulnerability 2010
CILAP (EAPN Italy): Conferences on minimum income
10 – 12 February, Rome – Promoted by CILAP EAPN Italia and other main actors, a two-day meeting on “Income, Common Good and Democracy” (www.cilap.eu) with a focus on adequate minimum income in a country where such scheme does not exist, was held in Teatro Valle Occupato.
EAPN UK: Launch of Snakes and ladders – Climbing out of Poverty – Date for your Diary!
Thanks to the inspirational work of ATD 4th World and Migrants Voice, The Unemployed Workers’ Centres in the UK have developed the idea of the Snakes and Ladders game to show how difficult it can be to climb out of poverty.
FNARS (membre d’EAPN France)
- L’hébergement des exilés en France : droit et réalités
- Hébergement d’urgence : le rapport parlementaire qui confirme la crise
EAPN Austria contributes to publication Growth in Transition
{jathumbnail}Stimulating growth through adjusting macroeconomic conditions remains the principal policy response to pressing problems of unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation. However, the current growth trajectory has neither led to a reduction of our overall resource use – as we use resources and energy more efficiently we consume more – nor created the conditions for full employment and increasing wellbeing. Growth in Transition, to which Michaela Moser, from EAPN Austria (die Amutskonferenz),
New publications from EAPN Spain
- ‘Impacts of the crisis’ report triggers media interest
- EAPN Spain launches new publication Foro de Debate
- 23/02, exchange and training day on professional skills
The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland)
- Need to spread the Living Wage Campaign message!
- Time to Stop the Stigma! Media needs to base benefit reporting on facts not fiction
Slovak Anti-Poverty Network holds its 2nd Public hearing on Poverty
{jathumbnail}On 28 February, the Slovak Anti-Poverty Network (SAPN) will hold the second Public Hearing on Poverty in Slovakia, in the National Council of the Slovak Republic, under the auspices of the Chair of the National Council, Pavol Hrušovský. About 80 people with experience of poverty, NGOs working with them and members of Parliament will take part.
EAPN Estonia: rise in subsistence benefit badly necessary
27/01 – As more than a fifth of Estonian residence lives below poverty line and too many people are at risk of poverty, a swift increase in subsistence benefits could improve the situation that has developed, writes LETA/Postimees Online.