Statistics released on 25 November by the Central Statistics Office show that the current crisis has driven more people into extreme poverty, with almost one in four households in arrears with their household bills at some time during 2009, and one in ten households falling into debt in the same period.
Tuesday , 7 December, The Government needs to publish a detailed report on the poverty impact of Budget 2011 which it is committed to carry out in its own National Action Plan for Social Inclusion.
{jathumbnail}On 3 December, EAPN participated in a meeting on the Code of Good Practice developed by the Council of Europe’s INGO Conference.
{jathumbnail}About 20 activists from national and local anti-poverty organizations from Western Balkans and Turkey took part in a 5-day study visit to Brussels.
{jathumbnail}Several members of EAPN and national networks will participate in the Belgian Presidency’s innovative Consensus Conference, organized with the support of FEANTSA on Homelessneses to be held in the Théâtre National, in Brussels on 9-10 December.
{jathumbnail}The ETUI seminar was held on 26November in the International Trade Union House, (ITUH), as part of the European Trade Union Institute’s (ETUI) contribution to the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
{jathumbnail}Michaela Moser, EAPN’s Vice President provided expert input on behalf of EAPN in the Peer Review held in Namur on the 26th November on “Using Reference Budgets for drawing up the requirements of a minimum income scheme and assessing adequacy”.
{jathumbnail}EAPN campaigned to have 2010 as the European Year against Poverty with the knowledge that it would be when the EU would renew its key strategies and we wanted to ensure a strong focus on poverty and social exclusion during this time of renewal.
{jathumbnail}On 24 September, EAPN and BAPN co-organised the Conference “Laying the Foundations of a Fairer Europe – Ensuring adequate minimum income for all”.
{jathumbnail}Brussels, 9th of December 2010 – JOINT PRESS RELEASE by Médecins du Monde, the HUMA network, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) and the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN).