A broad coalition of civil society organisations has today sent a joint letter to European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, calling for stronger action to address the increasing normalisation of discriminatory…
EAPN Spain held its 7th European Congress Against Poverty in the capital of La Rioja, in collaboration with EAPN La Rioja and the Logroño City Council. The event took place…
On 16 June, EAPN Portugal hosted the Transnational Seminar “35 Years of Commitment, 40 Years of Europe: Pathways to a Poverty-Free Society”. A Moment of Double Reflection The seminar took…
By EAPN France The French government is preparing a major reform of its social protection system through the creation of a Unified Social Allowance (ASU), expected to be presented in…
The European Anti-Poverty Network organises a conference in Brussels every year that brings together not only NGO activists but more importantly people who are experiencing or have experienced poverty, the…
Following the cancellation of the physical conference, the partners of the ASSIST 2GETHER project – in which EAPN has been leading the policy orientation work – are happy to announce that they have…
The coronavirus crisis is exacerbating in-work poverty in the EU and a powerful raft of labour market and welfare measures is needed for an adequate response. According to Eurofound, in…
On Monday 17 June, EAPN organised the second meeting of the European Vulnerable Consumers Steering Committee (VCSC) at the European Economic and Social Committee. This meeting, organised as part of EAPN’s policy orientation…
A majority of EU countries have significant levels of energy poverty and are unable to keep all their citizens warm this winter, groundbreaking new research by Open Exp released by the…
11/12/2015 – Nobel laureate Stiglitz, author of The Price of Inequality and The Great Divide, studies the forces driving inequality and what is at stake if it continues. In his view, bad economic thinking deserves part of the blame — fanciful ideas like trickle-down and the notion that economists should try to increase the size of the economic pie and let the politicians worry about distribution. On the contrary, Stiglitz sees distribution as a problem economists must confront. He warns that an economic system that doesn’t raise standards of living for most Americans is a failure.