EAPN Portugal launches a website for 2010 Year!
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…
EAPN Romania members host international meetings in Bucharest on migration
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…
EAPN Ireland Book Launch and 20th Anniversary
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…
EAPN France calls on the French Government to re-launch housing policy
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…
The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland) calls on UK Prime Minister David Cameron to support Poverty Target in Europe 2020 Strategy
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…
Participation, the key mechanism for social inclusion, by Fintan Farrell and Douhoumir Minev
{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…
Take action: send a letter for adequate Minimum Income schemes!
{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……
EAPN Austria ‘smartmobs’ against poverty: get a spoon and make noise!
{jathumbnail}On the 14th of June, EAPN Austria has started – what is hopefully to become – a large series of smartmobs against poverty. Smartmobs – or flashmobs as they are…
EAPN’s General Assembly: EU Year 2010: Building a Europe for All
{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.
EAPN urges Ministers for Employment and Social Affairs to defend a target to reduce poverty and inequalities as a Headline Target in the Europe 2020 Strategy
{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…