{jathumbnail}The 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion was officially closed with a ceremony that took place in the Charlemagne building of the European Commission on 17 December in Brussels.
{jathumbnail}JOINT PRESS RELEASE by Médecins du Monde, the HUMA network, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) and the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN).
{jathumbnail}On 16 December, the European Commission published its Communication on the Europe 2020 Flagship Programme: Platform against Poverty.
{jathumbnail}On 3 December, EAPN participated in a meeting on the Code of Good Practice developed by the Council of Europe’s INGO Conference.
{jathumbnail}About 20 activists from national and local anti-poverty organizations from Western Balkans and Turkey took part in a 5-day study visit to Brussels.
{jathumbnail}Several members of EAPN and national networks will participate in the Belgian Presidency’s innovative Consensus Conference, organized with the support of FEANTSA on Homelessneses to be held in the Théâtre National, in Brussels on 9-10 December.
{jathumbnail}The ETUI seminar was held on 26November in the International Trade Union House, (ITUH), as part of the European Trade Union Institute’s (ETUI) contribution to the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
{jathumbnail}Michaela Moser, EAPN’s Vice President provided expert input on behalf of EAPN in the Peer Review held in Namur on the 26th November on “Using Reference Budgets for drawing up the requirements of a minimum income scheme and assessing adequacy”.
{jathumbnail}EAPN campaigned to have 2010 as the European Year against Poverty with the knowledge that it would be when the EU would renew its key strategies and we wanted to ensure a strong focus on poverty and social exclusion during this time of renewal.
{jathumbnail}On November 23rd, the four paltforms and 21 European NGO’s have sent a letter to Commissioner Andor demanding calling for the strenghthening of the Social OMC in the future Platform Against-Poverty.