28/05/2014 – Yesterday new data from INE Survey of Quality of Life ( CVD) were published. 2013 final data , with the headline “In the last year, the population at…
10/06/2014 – The Belgian Network on Minimum Income (BMIN) – gathering networks, trade unions and academics invovled in the fight against poverty and social exclusion is organising a conference on…
20/05/2014 – Dear colleagues, in past weeks Serbia has suffered from the worst floods in the last 120 years. Entire cities are destroyed and thousands of mainly socially endangered households…
16/04/2014 – Figures published by the Trussell Trust today show a fivefold increase in demand for food banks. In 2013/14, 913,138 men, women and children used a Trussell Trust food…
16/04/2014 – CSO figures published today show that 1.2 million people now experience deprivation, twice the pre-recession figure. “Nice words about ‘protecting the most vulnerable’ are not enough. We need…
The Scottish Living Wage Campaign has welcomed the announcement by Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP that the Scottish Government is to amend the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Bill to require…
08/03/2014 – The Child Poverty Action Group in association with the Poverty Alliance (EAPN in Scotland), the Open University and Glasgow Caledonian University have published a new edition of Poverty…
21/03/2014 – The Belgian Anti-Poverty Network (BAPN) and the Flemish Anti-Poverty Network (Netwerk tegen Armoede) reacted to the declarations of Maggie De Block, Belgian Secretary of State for Social Inclusion…
01/04/2014 – With more than 10 million taxpayers who chose to mark their solidarity by ticking the box “Activities of general and social interest” for 2013, € 278,918,000 million euro…
On 25 May, Belgium will vote at European level but also at Belgian level (for the federal and regional Parliaments). Belgium and Europe need political decision makers who get formally…