EAPN’s toolkit on Structurals Funds for NGOs
26/11/2012 – EAPN has just published a new toolkit for its national networks and for other social NGOs, to support their advocacy work and help them press their National Authorities…
EAPN’s toolkit on Structurals Funds for NGOs
26/11/2012 – EAPN has just published a new toolkit for its national networks and for other social NGOs, to support their advocacy work and help them press their National Authorities to prioritise the new social targets of Europe 2020, and especially the poverty reduction target, by…
EAPN Sweden translates Active Inclusion Booklet
EAPN Sweden has translated in Swedish a summary of the Active Inclusion Booklet Active Inclusion: Making It Happen, which aims to explore the reality of the European Commission’s Active Inclusion Strategy…
- showing progress on implementation so far,
- highlighting good and bad practices,
- signposting key elements to making the strategy work at national and EU levels.
EAPN Greece: key facts and figures on poverty!
Athens, 09-10 November 2012 – In solidarity with its Greek network, EAPN held its Executive Committee in Athens, preceded by an open debate on the overall situation as well as on poverty and social exclusion. Maria Marinakou, from EAPN Greece, put together some key figures on poverty in Greece, which really helps get a clearer picture of the reality.
Poverty in Greece: key facts and figures! by Maria Marinakou, EAPN Greece.
We need an intelligent agreement on the future EU budget
Social NGOs petition hand over more than 11.300 signatures calling on Member States to respect their commitments to poverty reduction!
EAPN, expert network in Peer Review “Area-based policies in urban areas: how to promote good living conditions for children and youth”
13-14 Nov 2012 – EAPN, represented by EAPN Vice-President: Kart Mere (EAPN EE) presented a paper as expert network in the Peer Review “Area-based policies in urban areas: how to promote good living conditions for children and youth” held in Oslo on 13-14 November 2012.
EAPN meets in Athens – The medicine is killing the patient… and democracy!
Athens, 09-10 November 2012 – In solidarity with its Greek network, EAPN held its Executive Committee in Athens, preceded by an open debate on the overall situation as well as on poverty and social exclusion. Sergio Aires, President of EAPN, and Fintan Farrell, Director of EAPN, both spoke on behalf on EAPN. “The imposition of such measures and their negative impact seem to be deliberate. Deliberate for what? For the promotion of precarity in these countries towards a new world order meeting the needs of increasingly large Corporations and resulting in slavery and misery for the majority of citizens for the benefit of an even wealthier minority”, said Sergio Aires.
42 NGO networks address European Council, Parliament and Commission: Play the card of partnership
07 Nov 2012 – 42 NGO networks including EAPN co-signed an open letter sent yesterday to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission on the Partnership principle, highlighting their concerns about the on-going trend towards a dilution of this partnership principle, the decrease of socio-economic and civil society stakeholder’s participation and the deletion of the Code of conduct.
EAPN Malta: Water as a human right petition launched
The General Workers’ Union and the Anti-Poverty Forum have joined forces to promote a petition launched by the European Public Service Union, which the GWU forms part of, calling on…
EAPN Malta: Water as a human right petition launched
The General Workers’ Union and the Anti-Poverty Forum have joined forces to promote a petition launched by the European Public Service Union, which the GWU forms part of, calling on the EU to put water as a human right on its agenda.