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2015 Human rights as an answer to the social damage of the crisis

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff May 11, 2015

07-08/05/2015 – EAPN spoke in Alliances to Fight Poverty/ Re-InVEST Seminar, May 7-8, Madrid. How can we make Europe more social, democratic and sustainable? How useful are existing instruments, like the Annual Growth Survey, the European Semester, the Juncker investment plan? Secondly, are human rights an useful tool? And how must they be implemented? The seminar was delivered as part of the new Re-INVEST project, financed by Horizon 2020, aiming to reframe the social investment approach as a strategy to humanize Europe.

CILAP (EAPN Italy) welcomes invitation from Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs to take part in the Italian Operationnal Programme of the Fund for the Most Deprived

EAPN National Networks NewsBy Nellie Epinat January 24, 2014

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…

FNARS (member of EAPN France) supports the National Assembly vote on the Universal Rental Guarantee (GUL)

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff January 20, 2014

15/01 – The National Assembly adopted the Universal Rental Guarantee (Gul). In a context of acute housing crisis, FNARS supports the government’s willingness to intervene to secure donors and help households to access and remain in their homes.

26 Governments seem set to ignore EU Poverty Reduction Target

EAPN Press releasesBy EAPN Europe Staff April 19, 2012

Brussels, 19 April 2012 – In advance of the General Affairs Council on the 24^th of April, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) has written to Prime Ministers insisting that the decisions they make in relation to the next round of Structural Funds is consistent with the agreed EU poverty reduction target.

EAPN joint lobbying letter to MEPs: Take action to reduce energy poverty now!

EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff October 8, 2008

In a joint letter with other social actors, EAPN urges the MEPs who haven’t done so to sign the declaration on Energy Poverty. If more than half the MEPs sign the declaration by the 7th of November, the Commission is called upon to make a response.

EAPN speaks at EP Employment Committee Hearing on Zuber ‘child poverty’ report

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff May 7, 2015

01/04/2015 – Sian Jones, EAPN Policy Coordinator spoke in the EMPL Committee hearing to prepare the own initiative report: “Reducing inequalities with a special focus on child poverty”, with rapporteur Ines Zuber (GUE). EAPN underlined the importance of giving more priority to the systemic causes of poverty rooted in inequality of distribution of resources – ensuring adequate income through the life cycle through quality jobs and social protection with guaranteed access to key public services financed by tax justice, rather than blaming parents and focusing only on individual solutions.

CILAP (EAPN Italy) in GRUNDTVIG Learning partnership Increasing Participation and Citizenship in Europe (ICE) Transnational Meeting on Prison and Poverty

EAPN National Networks NewsBy Nellie Epinat January 24, 2014

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…

EAPN Spain: Carlos Susías in the TOP 25 of Alternative Power

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff January 20, 2014

08/01/2014 Carlos Susías, the President of EAPN Spain, is one of the 500 most influential people in Spain in 2014, according to the El Mundo Spanish newspaper. He is also considered as one of the 25 most influential people in the alternative sector, i.e. significant people dedicated to civil society and citizens and social movements.

EAPN campaigns to support 20% ESF allocation for social inclusion

EAPN Press releasesBy EAPN Europe Staff March 13, 2012

Brussels, 13 March 2012 – Following its response to the Commission’s legislative package for Cohesion Policy, EAPN calls on all Member States to support the Commission’s proposal of a 20% ring-fenced allocation of the European Social Fund (ESF) for social inclusion and the fight against poverty.

“Ensuring a lasting legacy from 2010”: the EAPN 2008 General assembly final declaration

EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff October 3, 2008

Early preparation is essential for a successful EU year and under the banner “Ensuring a lasting legacy from 2010” the delegates to the General Assembly adopted the following declaration.

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