{jathumbnail}The Adequacy of Minimum Income in the EU is the 2nd in a series of 3 EAPN booklets called Explainers. It explains what minimum income schemes are at present throughout the EU and how and why minimum income schemes should be “adequate”, i.e. for everyone to live a dignified life, as EU Member States had…
{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…
{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}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.
On the 26th March, EAPN participated in the COFACE seminar in Brussels on ‘The role of social protection in the fight against poverty and social exclusion: which safety net for families?’. EAPN Director, Fintan Farrell gave a presentation on social protection and the fight against family poverty. Powerpoint presentations and pictures, as well as the…
On 29 March, EAPN and BAPN – the Belgian Antipoverty Network, together with the Social Platform held an important meeting with President Van Rompuy’s Head of cabinet: Odile Renaud-Basso. The meeting focused on the follow up to the Spring Council and the need to get agreement from Member States in the June Council on the…
Fintan Farrell, Director of EAPN, took part in the EP Hearing on Minimum Income held on 17 March. He called for the Parliament report to include a clear message about the positive impact of adequate minimum income schemes for alleviating and preventing poverty and promoting social cohesion and to counteract the negative stereotypes often associated…
