Adequate minimum wages are of great importance for improving the living and working conditions of people in the EU. They are important tools to guarantee social and labour rights. Moreover,…
2022 We are living in a time of great crises and change, and the issues are emerging very dynamically. While in the previous two years people’s livelihoods and aspects of…
Poverty Watch 2020 launch On 29 January 2021, we launched our EU Poverty Watch 2020. The Poverty Watches start from the reality of people experiencing poverty and the perspectives of NGOs…
On 29 January we held an online conference “Covid19 supercharging poverty” – data and experiences from the ground, hosted by MEPs Cindy Franssen and Marisa Matias. The EU Poverty Watch…
Looking back and looking forward In 2020, EAPN celebrates its 30th anniversary. Over three decades, EAPN has become the largest European network of anti-poverty NGOs and grassroots organisations and during…
Key recommendations to combat energy poverty Mathias Maucher, EAPN Policy Officer, spoke in the workshop “Who pays and who benefits in the energy transition?”in the context of the Energy Forum…
2021 Serious material poverty is the reality for almost 2% of Sweden’s population. This means that 184,000 people live in such circumstances that they may not be able to put…
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, will conduct an official visit to the European Union from 25 November 2020 to 29 January…
Strengthening members’ engagement in the European Semester 2020 and 2021 The capacity building webinar On 19 November 2020, EAPN organised a Capacity Building webinar with members to support exchange, learn…
Poverty is one of the clearest impacts of this systemic inequality. We simply cannot achieve our aim of eradicating poverty without also eradicating the entrenched racial inequalities that are embedded…