The Conference brought together representatives from local authorities, NGOs, national and European institutions and other actors involved in the fight against poverty and called for a greater involvement of the actors at the local level in the Strategy.
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 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.
This report reviews the realisation of the National Action Plans on Social Inclusion at the halfway stage of the first of five biennial Plans.
This year the key note theme was: “Putting Rights at the Centre of the EU Strategy against Social Exclusion”. At the end of the General Assembly, the EAPN delegates adopted the following declaration…
This seminar gave an opportunity to pool the thoughts and experiences of different EAPN Task Forces that monitor the employment and inclusion strategies, and the use of the Structural Funds, and was characterized by particularly productive debates.
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The Laeken Declaration rightfully underlines that “citizens want results in the field of employment and combating poverty and social exclusion”. In the series of questions addressed to the Convention, it asks “how can we intensify cooperation in the field of social inclusion…?” This paper sets out the broad areas where reform is necessary in order to enhance combating poverty and social exclusion in the European Union.
