On September 28th, the European Commission released its long-awaited proposal for a Council Recommendation on adequate minimum income ensuring active inclusion (the Proposal). The Proposal is part of the initiatives…
Objectives of the 2021 European meeting This years’ Meeting of People experiencing poverty centred on four important discussion topics: Housing Adequate Minimum Income Good quality health care services Digitalisation and…
On 14 September, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen delivered her speech on the State of the European Union in 2022. This political exercise aims to…
For the preparation of the proposal for a Council Recommendation on a fair transition towards climate neutrality, the European Commission launched a consultation process with civil society organisations active in…
An annual forum of civil society organisations advocating for social justice and participatory democracy As part of the Social Platform Flagship Conference 2021, both SOLIDAR and EAPN will lead the…
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Poverty is one of the clearest impacts of this systemic inequality. We simply cannot achieve our aim of eradicating poverty without also eradicating the entrenched racial inequalities that are embedded…
The Europe 2020 strategy set an EU poverty target to reduce poverty by at least 20 million people by 2020. The poverty target was crucial, but failed to reduce poverty…
Together with our partners Caritas Europe, ETUC, Eurodiaconia and the Social Platform, we add our voices to the Council’s invitation to the Commission to “initiate an update of the Union…
Since March, Mathias Maucher, EAPN Policy Officer, has participated as an invited expert in the “Diversity Europe Group” (Group III) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in drafting…