Here is good news for anyone unsure of understanding fully the issue of the poverty reduction target: EAPN Ireland has just issued a briefing on the proposed 25% poverty reduction target proposed by the EC as one of five headline targets for the new Europe 2020 strategy.
EAPN – Andalucia organised its 4th meeting of people experiencing poverty, focused on the topic of housing and exclusion on 19-20 March in Isla Cristina, Spain. This is the 1st meeting of people experiencing poverty of the 2010 European Year, before the national meeting and EU meeting of people experiencing poverty at the end of June. 1
On 26 March, EAPN Belgium (BAPN) organised in Liege a full-day event on the access to and exercice of housing rights in Europe. People living in poverty or having lived in poverty will testify and will propose recommendations to the federal Government and Europe. This was its third public event on the important question of housing and the 2nd major event of BAPN’s 2010 European Year programme.
On 26 March, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland welcomed the decision by European Union Heads of State to make the reduction of Poverty one of the 5 key objectives and targets for the EU’s new Europe 2020 strategy for the next decade. However, EAPN Ireland has expressed considerable concern that a decision on the adoption of poverty targets and progress indicators has been deferred until June.
{jathumbnail}The passing of the National Focus weeks reminds us how quickly the 2010 year is passing. Already activities in focus weeks have happened in Ireland, Austria, France, Slovenia and Luxembourg…
Poland inaugurated the 2010 European Year on Friday 26 February 2010.The opening conference took place in Warsaw, in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
{jathumbnail}More then 400 participants – from social NGOs, self‐organisations of people experiencing poverty, public authorities, and from the research community – attended the 8th Austrian Poverty Conference on 23rd/24th February in Salzburg. The conference focused on issues of distribution, capabilities and quality of life and included Richard Wilkinson (author of ‘The spirit level’) as keynote speaker…
László Andor, the new EU Commissioner responsible for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion attended the opening conference of the 2010 European Year in Paris. It was the first public engagement of the EU Commissioner. 60 projects that will receive funding from the National Implementing Body in France were presented. In his intervention, Fintan Farrell, Director of EAPN, called for support for an EU target in the fight against poverty and social exclusion…
“EAPN Ireland call for Jobs Strategy and Plan for Tackling Poverty”. A decade of progress on poverty in Ireland will be reversed without immediate action from the Government, according to Anna Visser, Director of the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland.