On the International Day for the Eradication on Poverty, Commissioner Andor recalls the EU measures which can help Member States reduce child poverty.
10/01 – Lone parents will increasingly struggle to achieve a decent standard of life in Scotland due to the combined impact of cuts to welfare and the rising cost of food and fuel according to research published today.
According to EAPN, the Kok report fails to grapple with the complexity of the Lisbon Agenda, and ignores the commitment made in Lisbon in March 2000 in relation to the eradication of poverty and social exclusion.
In view of the failure so far to integrate the economic, social and environment objectives of the Lisbon strategy, EAPN asks the European Council to give a strong mandate to the Commission to develop mechanisms with which to assess all aspects of the Lisbon strategy as to their social and environmental impact.
13/10/2014 – Sérgio Aires, President of the European Anti-poverty Network, gave a speech at the Mid-term review of the Europe 2020 Strategy conference on 9 October.
As the Annual Convention on Poverty was held on 10th and 11th December, FNARS and 8 persons experiencing exclusion launched a series of 3 videos to witness how they fell in poverty, recall the scope of the phenomenon of exclusion in France and tell what they expect from the Government.
In the final declaration of its 2004 General Assembly, EAPN states: "Diversity in social models in the enlarged EU might be used as an excuse to seek a less social Europe and to view enlargement primarily as an economic and internal market project."
This document is the report of an EAPN conference which was held in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2001.
EAPN has a job opening for an Information and Events Officer for a fixed term period of 6 months full-time replacing a staff member on maternity leave, starting mid-November. The…
05/12 – The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland has repeated its call on the Government to meet its obligations and carry out and publish poverty impact assessments of budgets.