EAPN Malta conference Informal Carers And Volunteering In The Community
In 2012, the European year for active ageing and solidarity between generations, SOS Malta organised a conference entitled ‘Informal Carers and Volunteering in the Community’.
Press Release: Spring Council fails to give an integrated social response to the crisis!
Brussels, 20 March 2009 – The conclusions from the Spring Council in Brussels on 19 and 20 March do not deliver on the expectations of an integrated strategy for social cohesion, with concrete short-term and long-term proposals against the social impact of the crisis.
Final declaration of the 2002 EAPN General Assembly
This year the key note theme was: “Putting Rights at the Centre of the EU Strategy against Social Exclusion”. At the end of the General Assembly, the EAPN delegates adopted the following declaration…
Joint Letter to MEPs Regarding Questions on Children’s Rights for New Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs
PICUM together with other child rights related organisations which include EAPN sent a letter to Members of the EU Parliament (MEPs) on 10 September 2014 regarding questions on migrant children’s rights for Mr. Dimitris Avramopoulos, Commissioner-designate for Migration and Home Affairs.
11/9 Joint seminar in the Parliament: Decent Work, Quality Jobs and Poverty – The Missing Link in Europe 2020 what way forward?
11/09/2014 – The Socialists & Democrats Group of the European Parliament hosted a joint seminar with the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) to critically examine how the quality of…
MAPP (EAPN FYROM) launches annual report on poverty and social exclusion
October 2012-March 2013: in partnership with the National Democratic Institute, the Macedonian Anti-Poverty Platform is working on introducing a new legislative initiative on Minimum income in FYROM.
EAPN Portugal: a seminar and a book
- Coming up soon: 18/12/2012 Seminar “ The impact of austerity on poverty”, Lisbon
- Launching of the book: “No one lives too long. Life is a moment”, in Lisbon, Palácio das Galveias, 19.30, 17/12 and Oporto, Casa do Infante, 16.30, 19/12.
Press release – The European Constitution: strengths and weaknesses
At a time when Member States are in the process of ratifying the EU Constitutional Treaty, either through a Parliamentary adoption or by referendum, EAPN issues its analysis of the text, highlighting some of its major strengths and omissions in the eradication of poverty and social exclusion in the European Union, where 68 million people live ‘below the line’.
EAPN Report – Follow up on the National Action Plans on Inclusion – The state of play by June 2002
This report reviews the realisation of the National Action Plans on Social Inclusion at the halfway stage of the first of five biennial Plans.
Semester Alliance proposes amendments to EP’s Reports on European Semester
09/09/2014 – Last Friday, the Semester Alliance proposed amendments to EP’s Reports on the European Semester to press for more democratic, and social and sustainable Semester, including support for national engagement and alliances.