EAPN Wallonia, member of BAPN, holds conference with Richard Wilkinson
27/11 – Conference and participative forum on Inequalities and health with Richard Wilkinson, Why equality is better for everyone
EAPN Spain news
- Watch Contra la Pobreza (“Against Poverty”)! http://vimeo.com/77056494
- 13/11 – EAPN Spain 2013 Seminar ‘Nuestra tarea ante el cambio de escenario y de modelo social’, (‘Our task in the social-model change’)
- 06/11 – Strategy for the most vulnerable
- 23/10 – Training on Innovation in social participation
- 22/10 – State Pact against Child Poverty
- 24/10 – EAPN Balearic Islands holds key event on child poverty and child well-being
‘Row For Rights’ reaches Budapest
{jathumbnail}29th August – 120 rowers arrived last Saturday 27th in Budapest, 400 km downstream from Vienna, where they had started 7 days before.
EAPN comments on the Commission’s communication “Social protection in the European Union: Modernisation and Improvement”
Download it: English – French – Italian – German
EAPN participates in 1st ECFIN dialogue with NGOs on an EMU for Citizens
26/03/2015- Representatives from five EAPN national networks (Belgium, Denmark, Lithuania, Spain, Portugal) together with EAPN policy coordinator, Sian Jones, participated yesterday in Brussels in the first Civil Society dialogue seminar organised by DG ECFIN. This initiative forms part of ECFIN’s new Communication strategy to ‘connect’ to stakeholders and citizens on EU’s economic agenda.
EAPN Ireland Seminar on 40 Years of Ireland in Social Europe, Dublin
15/11 – European Parliament Information Office Ireland and European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland Free Seminar on 40 years of Ireland and Social Europe, Looking back and looking forward.
Stand up for Basic Income as a Human Right! SIGN NOW!
European Citizens’ Initiative for an Unconditional Basic Income: please stand up for Basic Income as a Human Right! SIGN NOW!
WHAT IS BASIC INCOME? The emancipatory Unconditional Basic Income is defined by the following four criteria:
universal, individual, unconditional, high enough to ensure an existence in dignity and participation in society.
An Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) or Citizen’s Income is a guaranteed income, given to all in addition to any other income they might receive. By advancing equality and economic participation while enabling simpler welfare systems, UBI leads to a fairer and more efficient society.
“Europe needs a New Heart”, says EAPN to European leaders
{jathumbnail}“Europe needs a new heart” was the strong message conveyed to European leaders from the Brussels, 20 June 2011 – XXII General Assembly of the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) held recently in Lisbon.
EAPN report – Racism and Poverty
Report of an EAPN seminar held in Potenza, Italy, in January 1998, to take stock of the 1997 European Year against Racism.
EAPN Europe meets European Commission Vice President Dombrovskis
18/03/2015 – EAPN President, Sérgio Aires and Barbara Helfferich, Director of EAPN met with European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis for an exchange of views on the better integration of social objectives in the European Semester. EAPN underlined that the European Semester must ensure that economic and social objectives were equally important and that the country specific recommendations should be used to help reduce poverty.