{jathumbnail}This report, produced by the EAPN Social Inclusion working group, is based on concrete examples, demonstrates that the present crisis is having a cruel impact on the life of the most vulnerable, and that it is generating more deprivation and increasing hopelessness. Some recovery policies are highlighted as good examples.
EAPN welcomes this initiative of public consultation, and hopes that this consultation will lead not only to improved financial regulations but also the exchange of good practice and learning internally within the European Commission on more tailor-made handling of financial regulations and files across all DGs…
On 26-27 October, EAPN and its National Networks from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland met with anti-poverty NGOs in Reykjavik, Iceland.
On 14-15 September, EAPN participated in the seminar “At work, but poor and without a voice?”, organized by the Council of Europe, Directorate General for Social Cohesion, in cooperation with the Maltese Foundation for Human Resources Development and brought together government representatives, NGOs and private-sector actors to discuss two expert reports…
EAPN organised a Parliamentary Hearing on “Fighting Poverty and Inequality – Building Trust in the EU”, on 3 December 2009…
Since 22 October, EAPN and its national members have written to EP members to support a Parliamentary Declaration (0056/2009) which calls on Member States and the Commission to defend social rights in the crisis.
The Round Table took place on 15 and 16 October in Stockholm under the title ‘Social inclusion in times of recession” – New challenges for the Active inclusion strategy’.
EAPN members participated in the Spring Alliance conference held on 28 September in the EESC, organized together with Environmental, Development NGOs and trade unions.
On Wednesday 7 October, EAPN participated in a meeting in the European Parliament, organized by MEPs and 50 delegates from Latvian Trade Unions and NGOs to press the Commission about the serious social situation in Latvia arising from the conditions placed by the Commission on the Latvian Government to reduce their public deficit rapidly and make cuts in services. Urgent action was called for to redress this approach.
The third EU Eurobarometer conference “Understanding public opinion” took place in Gothenburg Sweden on 28 and 29 September 2009.
