This reports sets out the findings and key messages that have been drawn from an analysis made by the EAPN national and European member’s of the 2006 Implementation reports on the National Reform Programs.
On the eve of the EU’s Employment Committee meeting due to prepare input to the EU Spring Council, the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) urges Member States to put poverty and social exclusion back at the heart of the Lisbon Strategy.
On 14 December 2006, at a meeting between social NGOs, Commission officials and the EU Social Protection Committee, the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) expressed its deep concern at the disappearance of a clear focus on the eradication of poverty as an objective of the revised Lisbon Strategy.
This report presents EAPN’s impressions of the impact of the streamlined process on the fight against poverty. The central focus of this report is on the NAPs/incl integrated in the National Reports.
{jathumbnail}While welcoming the recognition of child poverty on the social policy agenda, this issue of Network News keeps a sharp watch: putting the plight of children first must not be used as an excuse for failing to tackle general anti–poverty approaches.
This report of the EAPN Conference ‘The EU We Want’, which took place on 8-9 June 2006 on the occasion of the Austrian Presidency of the EU, devotes to the results of the discussions and the key emerging messages from the conference.
On 15 November 2006, the European Parliament in its second reading, adopted the Services Directive, voting against all the proposed amendments to the Council’s compromise position. For the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN), this is only a partial victory.
Read the full report of the fifth European meeting of people experiencing poverty which took place on 12 and 13 May in Brussels under the Austrian Presidency.
On the eve of the Informal Tripartite Social Summit on Flexicurity to be held in Lahti, Finland on the 19 and 20th October 2006, the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) urges EU Prime Ministers to make sure that Flexicurity is used to deliver social cohesion and to contribute to the eradication of poverty, for people who are outside the labour market or already stuck in the worse paid, precarious employment.
Read the letter EAPN sent to the EU Prime Ministers on the eve of the of the Informal Tripartite Social Summit on Flexicurity held in Lahti, Finland on the 19 and 20th October
