23/03 – The seminar was organized as part of the EPC Well-Being 2030 project.The seminar produced an unusually frank exchange between a representative of the European Commission’s Economic and Financial DG (ECFIN) of the (Karl Pichelmann), Trade Unions: Rory O’ Farrell, and Sian Jones from EAPN.
On 10-11 March representatives of trade unions, NGOs, and social networks from 15 EU countries got together for the first Spring Social Conference, in which also EAPN participated.
EAPN’s Policy Coordinator Sian Jones, gave a presentation on the social impact of austerity measures at The European Trade Union Institute and the European Public Sector Unions joint conference on Austerity, economic governance reforms and social policies in Europe in Brussels.
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.