The Poverty Alliance
- Poverty campaigners, faith groups and trade unions welcome the increase in the Scottish living wage
- People First Demonstration – 1st October, Glasgow
BAPN news…
- Memorandum “for more solidarity in society” to Mr Di Rupo, the political ‘formateur’
- 1st BAPN Europe 2020 working group
Response to crisis driving more into poverty says EAPN Ireland at European Seminar, Dublin
09/06 – Concluding a two year European Commission funded project, the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland and its project partners demonstrate the impact of the response to the crisis…
News from FNARS
- Social Emergency!
- Efficiency of RSA (French minimum income scheme) and difficulties encountered by recipients
EAPN England holds meeting with Homeworkers
The meeting was organized with the Rochdale Homeworking Support Group which is one of the last remaining support groups for homeworkers in the UK. The group is of enormous value, both to the women who are members, and to those who are seeking to better understand homeworking in the UK.
FNARS (member of EAPN France): forced labour coming back
{jathumbnail}For several weeks the UMP (the Government’s party) has been criticizing strongly social benefits as exaggerated charity and blames minimum-income recipients.
BAPN: Stop social degradation!
- Social crisis: more millionaires
- The European Commission recommends Belgium to limit its social protection
EAPN Spain at the OECD Forum “Better policies for better lives”
24-25/05 – Carlos Susías Rodado was invited as President of EAPN Spain to participate in the OECD 50th-Anniversary Forum “Better policies for better lives” in Paris on 24-25 May 2011.
The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland): Fighting austerity across Europe
{jathumbnail}This spring/summer issue of the Scottish Anti-Poverty Review gives an insight of austerity measures throughout Europe, of their consequences on people and on the possible alternatives that could have been and should still be chosen, calling for a new approach.
EAPN Poland’s General Assembly
12/05 – EAPN Poland held its General Assembly in Warsaw. On the same day, the Polish delegation of people experiencing poverty was going to Brussels for the 10th European Meeting of People experiencing poverty, where they presented their messages.