Category Archives: News and publications

EAPN Austria contributes to publication Growth in Transition

{jathumbnail}Stimulating growth through adjusting macroeconomic conditions remains the principal policy response to pressing problems of unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation. However, the current growth trajectory has neither led to a reduction of our overall resource use – as we use resources and energy more efficiently we consume more – nor created the conditions for full employment and increasing wellbeing. Growth in Transition, to which Michaela Moser, from EAPN Austria (die Amutskonferenz),

New publications from EAPN Spain

• ‘Impacts of the crisis’ report triggers media interest
• EAPN Spain launches new publication Foro de Debate
• 23/02, exchange and training day on professional skills

The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland)

• Need to spread the Living Wage Campaign message!
• Time to Stop the Stigma! Media needs to base benefit reporting on facts not fiction

Slovak Anti-Poverty Network holds its 2nd Public hearing on Poverty

{jathumbnail}On 28 February, the Slovak Anti-Poverty Network (SAPN) will hold the second Public Hearing on Poverty in Slovakia, in the National Council of the Slovak Republic, under the auspices of the Chair of the National Council, Pavol Hrušovský. About 80 people with experience of poverty, NGOs working with them and members of Parliament will take part.

EAPN Estonia: rise in subsistence benefit badly necessary

27/01 – As more than a fifth of Estonian residence lives below poverty line and too many people are at risk of poverty, a swift increase in subsistence benefits could improve the situation that has developed, writes LETA/Postimees Online.