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’.
EAPN Malta: Water as a human right petition launched
The General Workers’ Union and the Anti-Poverty Forum have joined forces to promote a petition launched by the European Public Service Union, which the GWU forms part of, calling on the EU to put water as a human right on its agenda.
Press release: “Some steps forward but insufficient to address the current social realities”: EAPN responds to the Commission’s Revised Social Agenda
Brussels, 3 July 2008 – EAPN is concerned that the package of measures proposed are insufficiently coherent to impact on the current levels of poverty and exclusion in the EU.
EAPN Statement on the occasion of the First European Round Table on Poverty and Social Exclusion, Aarhus, 17-18 October 2002
EAPN welcomes the timely initiative by the Danish presidency and the European Commission in organising this Round Table on the European strategy against poverty and social exclusion.
Semester Alliance addresses Commissioners on their commitments to progress on Europe 2020 targets
05/09/2014 – The EU Semester Alliance has prepared questions to probe the Commissioner-Designates’ commitment to progress on the social, sustainable and equality targets and commitments of Europe 2020 and the European Semester, through strengthening democratic legitimacy and social and civil dialogue engagement, particularly in the context of the Mid-Term Review of the Europe 2020 strategy to be carried out in 2015.
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…
The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland): IDS Needs New Direction on Welfare
Commenting on Iain Duncan Smith’s speech during his visit to Scotland Peter Kelly, Director of the Poverty Alliance, said: “As we expected, the future of our welfare system will be a central element of the debate about Scotland’s constitutional future.
Press release: Comment mieux intégrer les personnes les plus éloignées du marché de l’emploi ? Les ONG de lutte contre la pauvreté présentent leurs propositions à la future présidence française de l’UE
A l’occasion d’un séminaire qui s’est tenu aujourd’hui à Paris, EAPN France ainsi que des représentants d’ONG de lutte contre la pauvreté venus des quatre coins de l’Europe ont présenté, en présence de Martin Hirsch, Haut commissaire aux Solidarités actives contre la pauvreté, leurs propositions quant aux principes visant à promouvoir l’inclusion active des personnes les plus éloignées du marché du travail.
EAPN Letter to the Convention members on the social dimension of the European Union
According to EAPN, the outcome of the Convention will have effects not just for this generation of Europeans but also for all the people who will live in Europe for the coming fifty years. It is important that the outcome of the Convention speaks to the 70 million people presently living in the European Union who are experiencing poverty and social exclusion.
EAPN has lost two very important women
It was with deep sadness and shock that Friday 15 August we received the news about the loss of two very important women for all of us in EAPN family: Alida Smeekes (EAPN Netherlands) and Ruth Brand (EAPN Germany). They were both strong and devoted founding members of our network and contributed deeply for the fight against poverty and social exclusion. We would like to express our deep condolences to their families and friends and remember all of us that the best way to honor them is to preserve their lasting legacy in our hearts, thoughts and actions.
Sérgio Aires: President of EAPN
If you should wish to contribute a message or a memory you have of Ruth or Alida please send an email to fintan.farrell@eapn.eu by 5 September. We will put these messages together and send to the families and Networks concerned and put them on our website as a tribute to the lives of these two women who have contributed from their strengths and convictions to the story of EAPN and the fight against poverty.
Photographs
1 – Alides Smeekes at the 9th EU Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty
2 – Ruth Brand at the Social Forum