Along with over 100 NGOs and networks of NGOs, EAPN has signed a letter addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, encouraging him to organise a high-level conference on the taxation of the financial sector.
{jathumbnail}Governments’ austerity measures have only been worsening an already dramatic situation, shows EAPN’s new report on the social impact of the crisis and of the recovery policies in 2010. Read…
{jathumbnail}Civil society activists call for European minimum social standards – According to the second European Social Watch Report, launched on 1 February, the EU has failed to address poverty and social exclusion within Europe and abroad.
{jathumbnail}The draft Joint Employment Report (JER) and the Annex of the Annual Growth Survey miss out tackling growing inequalities
EAPN publishes today its response to the The draft Joint Employment Report (JER) and the Annex of the Annual Growth Survey dealing with the implementation of the Employment Guidelines, which were released by the European Commission on 13 January.
Yota Arvaniti, Executive Member from Greece and Fintan Farrell Director, attended on behalf of EAPN the World Social Forum recently held in Dakar, Senegal.
EAPN published its response to the Fifth Report on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion of the European Commission on 28 January, calling for social inclusion and the fight against Poverty to be a binding priority…
This week, the European Commission launched the “European Semester” by publishing the Annual Growth Survey, Draft Employment Report and Progress Report on the Europe 2020 Strategy.
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The current financial and economic crises and the different forms of poverty are the key issues at the third Citizens’ Agora at the European Parliament on 27 and 28 January, with civil society representatives, including EAPN, who presents 5 key messages to this Agora…
{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).