EAPN report – Social protection or exclusion: a choice for Europe
Report of a seminar held in Villeneuve d’Ascq, 26-27 March 1999
EAPN meets President Juncker’s Cabinet
21/01/2015 – Sérgio Aires, president of EAPN, together with other Bureau members met with Commission President Juncker’s cabinet as well as the Stefaan Hermans, Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Thyssen, who is also responsible for social policy. These meetings served to introduce EAPN’s work to the new Commission as well to establish good working contacts. EAPN was well received by both cabinets who themselves had been working in the social field in previous years. In particular, Luc Tholoniat of Juncker’s cabinet had been closely involved in developing the Open Method of Co-ordination in early 2000.
EAPN Slovakia: Slovak Police demolish Roma settlement, infant reportedly hospitalized as a result
EAPN Slovakia gave a press conference on the Slovak participation to the 12th European Meeting of People experiencing poverty in Brussels, from 18 till 20 June 2013 and on the police raid that happened on Wednesday 18 June, in Moldava nad Bodvou.
Press release: No exit from the crisis without an exit strategy from poverty
{jathumbnail}Brussels, 16 June 2010 – The agreement of an EU target to reduce poverty is a good day for Europe, but the day plans to reduce poverty are implemented in each Member State will be a better one
EAPN position paper – Social protection or Exclusion: A choice for Europe
Social protection is an essential element in combating poverty and social exclusion. The term should be understood in its widest sense as being the guarantee that everyone may enjoy their fundamental rights at all stages of their life.
Launch of the European Year for Development EYD2015 Civil Society Alliance
15/01/2015 – More than 70 participants, including EAPN, took part in the Civil Society Alliance launch event of the 2015 European Year from Development #EYD2015 in Brussels. The event also launched the Action/2015 campaign calling on local and world leaders to take urgent action to fight, with concrete measures, for a just and sustainable world. The European Group of Action/2015 participated in the EYD2015 Alliance launch too and with CONCORD organized a photo op in front of the European Parliament.
EAPN France conference on the right to food and the right to be fed
01/06 – Organised by EAPN France on 21 March 2013 in partnership with the UNESCO Chair on world’s food system* and the National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA), the conference brought together over 250 people, around the differences between food aid and the right to food.
Press release: Actions to combat Poverty and to foster Social Inclusion risk remaining at the margins of EU Cooperation
{jathumbnail}Brussels, 29 April 2010 – EAPN’s reaction to the Commission’s proposals for Integrated Guidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy.
EAPN report – Structural Funds: mainstreaming, partnership, targeting
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Economic Crisis and Austerity in Southern Europe: Threat or Opportunity for building a sustainable welfare state?
On Tuesday the 13 January 2015, EAPN participated in the first of OSE’s after-work seminars, organized with AK EUROPA and the ÖGB Europabüro, which presented damning new evidence of the negative impact of austerity on welfare states, particularly on social protection and health service, increasing poverty and inequality. The response from Dino Pinelli, Senior Economist from DG ECFIN, recognized the negative impact but underlined Member State responsibility for choice of measures and the need to continue with the treatment. EAPN’s questions focused on 4 issues: