Category Archives: News and publications

EAPN Response to the Social Protection Committee document “Key issues on social protection and employment”

EAPN holds that quality jobs are essential to tackling poverty; therefore EAPN is engaged by the issues in this document, and sees it as legitimate and essential to step into the debate.

EAPN REPORT – The potential of Local Social Capital in the struggle against social exclusion

EAPN has just published a research on the European Commission’s Local Social Capital Programme (1999-2002). EAPN’s research includes a survey of its members’ awareness of the programme and an analysis of information provided by the “Intermediary Bodies”.

EAPN Response to the Commission’s Communication on the future of the European Employment Strategy

In this paper EAPN sets out its reflections on the Commissions Communication and recommendations for the revised Guidelines.

EAPN Input on the Mid-Term Review of the Social Policy Agenda

This document is the Input by Fintan Farrell, Director EAPN on the occasion of the  “Mid Term Review of the Social Policy Agenda: Achievement and perspectives” Conference organised by EU Commission on 19-20 March 2003.

EAPN Briefing note on the application of the European Social Inclusion Strategy in the acceding/candidate countries to the EU

This briefing note is divided into 3 parts: the Joint Inclusion Memoranda; the EU Social Exclusion Action programme; and EAPN and NGOs in the accession countries.

Final declaration of the EAPN-EUROCITIES Joint Conference: ‘The EU Strategy for Social Inclusion: Making it work at the local level’

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.

EAPN Letter to the Convention members on the social dimension of the European Union

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 Statement on the occasion of the First European Round Table on Poverty and Social Exclusion, Aarhus, 17-18 October 2002

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.

EAPN Report – Follow up on the National Action Plans on Inclusion – The state of play by June 2002

This report reviews the realisation of the National Action Plans on Social Inclusion at the halfway stage of the first of five biennial Plans.

Final declaration of the 2002 EAPN General Assembly

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…