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.
{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.
EAPN Portugal has just launched a micro-website for EAPN Portugal’s activities within the scope of 2010 EY. It is in Portuguese and can be accessed through www.reapn.org/2010 or by clicking in the 2010 logo in REAPN’s homepage (www.reapn.org).
Two members of RENASIS – EAPN Romania, ADO SAH ROM and AUR, hosted 2 international meetings organized in Bucharest, on the migration phenomena and on Romania as a country of both emigration and immigration. For more information, please contact Cristina_Loghin@gmx.net.
EAPN Ireland will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on 1 July in Dublin. On that occasion, the publication “Ireland and the European Social Inclusion Strategy: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead” by Pat Carey TD, Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs will be launched. For further information, please contact enquiries@eapn.ie.
On 16 June, 31 civil-society organizations, including the Fondation Abbé-Pierre, Emmaüs and France Terre d’Asile, asked the French Government to relaunch the housing policy for homeless people and people living in substandard housing, denouncing the gap between official speeches and reality.
On 7 June, on behalf of EAPN UK, the Poverty Alliance addressed a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron calling for his support for a relative poverty target in the Europe 2020 Strategy.
{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”.
