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:
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…
Press Release: A cautious step forward – but will it reduce poverty?
{jathumbnail}Brussels, 26 March 2010 – EU leaders back principle of EU Poverty Target, but fail to agree figure or indicator.
Final declaration of the 1999 EAPN General Assembly: ‘Sharing the wealth: fighting the root causes of poverty and social exclusion’
EAPN calls for a fairer sharing of wealth based on the principle of equal and effective access to fundamental rights for all and the primacy of human over market values.
EAPN survey on NGOs involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe
This report is based on material gathered by way of questionnaire in 14 Central and Eastern European countries.
ETUI Monthly Forum on ECI Right2Water
07/01/2015 – The European Trade Union Institute is organising a debate on the European Citizens’ Initiave ‘Right2Water’ on 22 January 2015 in Brussels. We will have an eminent social scholar who has analysed what we have done and putting it in a broader perspective, as well as the rapporteur from the European Parliament Lynn Boylan who is preparing the position of the EP on the ECI.
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…
EAPN Poland gets support for new project “EAPN Poland: Building Social Europe Together”
EAPN Poland is supported by Swiss Grant for a new project that started on 1st of April 2013 and will last till 30th of November 2014. In the framework of the project “EAPN Poland: Building Social Europe Together”, we plan: