{jathumbnail}Brussels, 11 June 2012 – The 23rd EAPN General Assembly delivered a strong message to EU Institutions and National Governments to say that ‘Austerity’ is not working and that it is driving people further into poverty and making the ‘poor’ pay the price for the crisis they did not create.
Read the speech made by Fintan Farrell, the EAPN Director, at the 7th European Round Table on Poverty and Social exclusion.
12/05/2015 – EUROCITIES organised a panel debate on Urban dialogues (1): Tackling unemployment with Europe’s cities with Sian Jones, EAPN’s Policy Coordinator as one of its key speakers. The purpose of the debate was to present the EUROCITIES Work Declaration and engage relevant stakeholders on a dialogue with cities. NGOs have a very important role to play in creative inclusive labour market and they are key partners of local governments.
Launched in early 2013, the multi-year plan to fight against poverty and social inclusion, initiated a change in the consideration of the precariousness and the fight against poverty in our…
Rome, January 23, 2014 – CILAP EAPN Italia was invited to participate in the first meeting organized by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies related to the strategic role…
{jathumbnail}EAPN First assessment of the National Reform Programmes (NRPs) 2012
Brussels, 21 May 2012 – EAPN has written to Commissioner Andor and to the members of the Social Protection Committee (in advance of their meeting on 23 May) presenting its first assessment of the 2012 National Reform Programmes (NRPs).
The Round Table on Poverty and Social Exclusion 2008, was an important opportunity to make real progress on delivering a dynamic integrated active inclusion approach which incorporates the right to adequate income, access to services and to quality, sustainable employment.
04/05/2015 – All UN Member States have recognised that the human right to water and the human right to sanitation are part of binding international human rights law. This publication by Amnesty International and WASH United gathers the evidence of the universal recognition of the human rights to water and sanitation. It gives an overview of the most important resolutions and declarations that recognise the human rights to water and sanitation, including the positions that individual states have taken when those documents were adopted.
On its 10th anniversary, EAPN calls for adequate minimum income in Spain and Europe Madrid, January 24, 2014. EAPN Spain (EAPN-ES) today celebrates 10 years of renewing its commitment to…
AVELLINO 16 -19 January, 2014 – CILAP (EAPN Italy) co-organised the transnational Meeting Learning partnership Increasing Participation and Citizenship in Europe (ICE) entitled “Prison and Poverty – Tools and methodologies of participation”. This meeting is one of the 4 transnational events of the Grundtvig project “Increasing participation and Citizenship in Europe” (ICE). People in poverty, convicts and ex-convicts, people working with them or other disadvantaged groups, i.e. community operators and organizers, social workers, social cooperatives, associations attended the event, as well as people coming from the partners countries: Hungary, the Netherlands and Austria.