Category Archives: EAPN News

EAPN supports ETUC march against Austerity Plan

{jathumbnail}Trade unions and civil society organizations demonstrated on 29 September to express their opposition to austerity measures, which bring cuts in social budgets and place at further risk those most harmed by the crisis.

BAPN/EAPN Conference on Minimum Income Schemes, 24.09.2010

{jathumbnail}Laying the Foundations of a Fairer Europe – Ensuring adequate minimum income for all

EAPN responds to the Eurobarometer report

{jathumbnail}The Eurobarometer report – European bi-annual opinion poll – that came out on 16 August shows that only 42% of Europeans say they trust the European Union, down six percentage points in just six months.

EAPN-BAPN conference: Laying the Foundations for a Fairer Europe – Ensuring an Adequate Minimum Income for All

{jathumbnail}The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) and the Belgian Anti-Poverty Network (BAPN) will hold a major conference aiming at building consensus towards the need for progress on the guarantee of an adequate minimum income for a dignified life, as a basis for a fairer EU.

EAPN and EAPN Ireland Publish Report from Building Social Europe Conference

{jathumbnail}The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) organised an international conference in Dublin to further its vision for the legacy of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, in the context of the EU’s priorities for the next decade.

EAPN presents its proposals on the European Platform against Poverty

{jathumbnail}The Europe 2020 Strategy includes, as one of its 5 key targets, a target to reduce poverty by 20 million people, to be delivered through a flagship initiative: the ‘European Platform against Poverty’.

Laying the Foundations for a fairer Europe!

{jathumbnail}Ensuring adequate minimum income for all

EAPN and BAPN will hold a major conference on 24 September in Brussels to contribute to the 2010 European Year against Poverty and Social Exclusion, building consensus towards the need for progress on the guarantee of an adequate minimum income for a diginified life, as a basis for a fairer EU.

Participation, the key mechanism for social inclusion, by Fintan Farrell and Douhoumir Minev

{jathumbnail}Fintan Farrell, Director of EAPN and Douhomir Minev, EAPN’s Bulgarian Executive Committee member, co-drafted an article published on Europe’s World on 6 June, entitled “Participation, the key mechanism for social inclusion”.