In a letter to President Barroso, EAPN expresses its serious concerns about the lack of respect for the consultation process that the Commission launched on the future social policy agenda for the EU.
07/10 – As part of a delegation of the European Platform, EAPN met with Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Lazlo Andor. While the EAPN welcomed the latest commission on the social dimension of the EMU, we stated clearly where the communication fell short of our expectations. See EAPN statement here below.
EAPN Portugal is currently developing national and transnational projects in different fields: Project ROMI (July 2011- November 2013) – National project aimed at the Roma Communities, to promote equal opportunities…
Around 10 million people (22.5% of the population) live experience ‘relative poverty’ in Spain, living with 500 € or less per month. 2 millions of them experience extreme poverty, with…
On the occasion of an EAPN seminar which was held in Paris on 13 June, EAPN presented the future French Presidency, with proposals regarding principles on Active Inclusion. The French are planning to adopt such principles at the Council meeting on 15-16 December 2008.
03/10 – FEANTSA and Niccolò Rinaldi MEP (ALDE group) co-hosted a public hearing to raise awareness about how homeless people can participate in the development of homeless services and decision-making with regard to homelessness Participation of homeless people: Get a different result… get people participating!
The latest edition of the Scottish Anti-Poverty Review is now available to download from the Poverty Alliance website: http://www.povertyalliance.org/publications_detail.asp?pubs_id=83 This edition focuses on the issue of ‘asset based’ approaches to…
30/11 – The latest report on income and poverty published today shows that inequality in Ireland has grown dramatically. The preliminary results from the Central Statistics Office Survey of Income and Living Conditions 2010 shows that the at-risk of poverty rate grew from 14.1% in 2009 to 15.8% in 2010.
This tool kit is to help EAPN National Networks engage with the process this year, and to press for a stronger focus on social inclusion at all level.
24/09 – Commissioner Andor presented his vision on the Social Dimension of the EMU to a well-attended EPC briefing, prior to the publication of the Commission Communication, due to be published on 3 October. Commissioner Andor talked of Europe facing an ‘existential crisis’, resulting from the insufficiencies of the economic framework of the EMU and the failure to take action on social imbalances. The ‘polarisation and widening gap’ between the north/centre and the peripheries in Europe, and regions were reaching a state of ‘social emergency’, as highlighted by President Barroso in his State of the Union Speech in September.