On 8 October 2009, EAPN Poland organized a conference on “Rights and opportunities of people experiencing poverty” in the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, in Warsaw.
The meeting was organised on 25 September in Mulhouse by the Council of Europe, which since 2005 has defined and implemented a new approach to social cohesion and sustainable development called “territories of co-responsibility”.
President Sarkozy presented its “Plan Jeunes” (Plan for Young People) on 29 September.
More than 10.000 people, 1% of the population, live on campsites all year long in Belgium.
On the occasion of the recent meeting of the EAPN Executive Committee in Edinburgh, the Scottish Anti Poverty Alliance held a seminar on the role of small nations and regions in the EU.
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…
The third EU Eurobarometer conference “Understanding public opinion” took place in Gothenburg Sweden on 28 and 29 September 2009.
On 8 October, Ludo Horemans participated in the EPEE EU Conference on fuel poverty organised by EPEE (European Fuel Poverty and Efficiency) Consortium funded by the Energy Intelligent Europe Programme. He highlighted the importance to tackle the growing problem of fuel poverty by an integrated approach embrassing the issues of an adequate minimum income, the…
{jathumbnail} In the context of the upcoming debate on the future of the Cohesion Policy and at almost mid-term of the current programming period of Structural Funds, EAPN stresses the crucial need to strengthen the link between Social Inclusion and Structural Funds, which is currently clearly insufficient…
