Throughout May, EAPN Ireland will facilitate a series of constituency hustings across Ireland. All candidates have been invited to participate in the meetings, which will provide a forum for people who experience poverty and social exclusion to engage with European politics and potential policymakers. Each constituency meeting will be preceded by a ‘European training’ on…
The Hungarian Anti Poverty Network organises an international seminar on 23-24 April. The main topic of the seminar is how NGOs and anti poverty networks can ensure that the interests of people experiencing poverty are represented and taken aboard in the discussions about the economic crisis (its management). Four national anti poverty networks will be…
As part of the project “from Observation to Participation”, financed by the Ministry of Employment, Health and Social Affairs, around 100 people met in Avellino (Naples) on 13 March 2009, to discuss the participation of people in poverty and the need for better basic services.
In a paper produced by EAPN Bulgaria for the Bulgarian Recovery Plan, they point out that the crisis could be a period of opportunities. “How well these opportunities will be used determines where societies will be headed for – sustainable development and recovery or ‘take a short breath’ and then again plunge into the wave…
On 6th April, EAPN responded to the European Commission’s consultation on financial inclusion and access to a basic bank account. Stressing that time has come to “restore citizens’ confidence in the EU’s financial agenda….by putting the internal market at the service of public good”, EAPN calls on the European Commission to propose a Directive on…
This month, EAPN issues its new magazine, the Anti-Poverty Magazine, which replaces the former EAPN’s Network News. This 12-page publication will be issued three times a year. This first new issue is also a special one, on the European Elections, with contributions from the 5 main groups in the European Parliament. It also includes EAPN’s…
On 20 March, EAPN published a press release following the Conclusions from the Spring Council (19/20 March). For EAPN, these conclusions represent a disappointing narrowing of the focus of the EU economic recovery packages – prioritising financial regulation, employment and new investment rather than an integrated strategy to tackle the social impact of the crisis.…
EAPN France mobilised around UNIOPSS (National Interfederal Union of health and social organisations) to draft a memorandum calling on the French candidates to the European elections on several issues concerning the social economy sector and the place of social politics in current community processes.
On Tuesday 31 March, EAPN attended a policy briefing meeting with Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. The Commissioner presented the work on enlargement in the past five years and made the point that enlargement shouldn’t be blocked, although some EU leaders should like to put the Enlargement process on hold until the EU starts to recover…
The Scottish Migrants Network, a grouping of organisations working with and for new migrants in Scotland, has recently launched a new poster campaign to inform migrants of their rights at work. The network, which is currently hosted by the Poverty Alliance, launched the posters at an event attended by the Deputy First Minister in the…