{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’.
{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.
{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.
{jathumbnail}Organised by the Spanish Presidency of the European Union, with the support of the European Commission and of the European Anti-Poverty Network, the 9th European Meeting of People experiencing poverty took place at the European Parliament on 25 June and at the European Commission the next day.
{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”.
{jathumbnail}None of Minimum Income schemes in Europe are adequate, sufficient for people to live in dignity. In 3 EU countries, they don’t even exist. And that could get even worse… If you believe that minimum income should be adequate, we need your contribution here:
{jathumbnail}EAPN’s Cyprus network hosted EAPN’s 2010 General Assembly on 10-12 June. At this GA, which marked its 20th anniversary, EAPN welcomed EAPN Estonia into its membership.
{jathumbnail}On 3 June 2010, EAPN sent a letter to the Ministers of Employment and Social Affairs urging them to defend a target to reduce poverty and inequalities as a Headline Target in the Europe 2020 Strategy at their Council meeting next week.
{jathumbnail}The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held its major Biennale Conference in Florence on 20-22 May. To mark the 2010 Year Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, the theme of the Conference was “Education to Combat Social Exclusion”.
{jathumbnail}On the 27th April 2010, the Commission published their proposals for Integrated Guidelines to deliver on the EU strategy: Europe 2020. 10 Guidelines have been proposed, under two distinct legal bases: 6 Economic and 4 Employment Guidelines.