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EC – DG IPOL | Study on ‘EU Social and Labour Rights and EU Internal Market Law’

Other publicationsBy EAPN Europe Staff November 12, 2015

06/11/2015 – Having developed incrementally, EU social and labour rights only in 2009 became legally binding through the Charter of Fundamental Rights for the European Union (CFREU). The study requested by EMPL Committee develops the concept of a constitutionally conditioned Internal Market as a way to overcome the perception that social and labour rights limit Internal Market law. On this basis, alternative responses to perceived tensions are proposed.

The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland) | Edinburgh Restaurant Becomes First to Serve Up the Living Wage

EAPN National Networks News, EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff November 12, 2015

06/11/2015 – The Mussel & Steak Bar based in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket has become Scotland’s first Living Wage accredited restaurant. The family run restaurant specializes in surf and turf, and currently employs 24 staff. By becoming an accredited Living Wage employer, the Mussel & Steak Bar has committed to paying their staff £8.25 per hour – the new rate announced on Monday 2 November.

Eurochild working paper | Conditional cash transfers and their impact on children – ensuring adequate resources throughout the life cycle from a children’s perspective

Other publicationsBy EAPN Europe Staff November 12, 2015

Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) in general aim to exert an immediate effect on poverty by raising income, while at the same time contributing to a longer-term reduction of poverty by improving beneficiaries’ future potential to earn a living, in so doing contributing to a drop in demand for such benefits. Within the range of CCTs implemented to date, behaviour related to education, health and nutrition constitute frequent foci, with education and health the most common combination.

Eurochild | Speak Up! Voices of European Children in Vulnerable Situations

Other publicationsBy EAPN Europe Staff November 12, 2015

28/10/2015 – An Explorative Study of Children’s Rights in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. The aim of the Speak up! study is to increase our knowledge of European children in vulnerable situations or with special needs, and their own views about their rights and what needs to be improved.

Social Platform guide to the EU Public Procurement Directive – Public Procurement For Social Progress

Other publicationsBy EAPN Europe Staff November 12, 2015

Following the work of the Social Platform Task Force on Public Procurement, the SP’s guide on the Public Procurement Directive in English, French, German or Spanish! Croatian, and Italian versions will be available soon.

EAPN mobilises to get MEPs to sign Written Declaration on Investing in Children

EAPN National Networks News, EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff November 10, 2015

EAPN members are contributing to the the EU Alliance’s efforts to gather signatures of the Written Declaration on Investing in Children from at least half of the Members of the European Parliament (i.e. 376 members) by the 7th December 2015 and to raise public awareness about the campaign. To name a few: in the context of the Cypriot Children’s Week 2015, EAPN Cyprus is organizing an event on 21st November (in co-organisation with the PCCPWC, Pancyprian Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Welfare of Children) when which 6 MEPs from Cyprus will be invited to sign the Declaration; EAPN Estonia, Germany, Portugal, Malta and Netherlands also sent requests for signatures to the MEPs of their countries and/or are raising the visibility of the campaign through their communication channels.

#2015PEP – SOCIAL CONVERGENCE IN THE EU – A strategic dialogue meeting with People experiencing Poverty

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff November 9, 2015

The European Meeting of People experiencing Poverty takes place this year on 19-20 November 2015 in Brussels as a consultation with people experiencing poverty to gather their input on policies to foster social convergence in Europe and to strengthen the participation of people experiencing poverty in policies that affect them. Delegations of people experiencing poverty from 30 countries in Europe exchange with EU officials and other policy makers. It is expected that the outcomes of this Year’s meeting will feed into the Annual Convention on Poverty and Social Exclusion that is likely to take place early 2016.

#2015PEP – SOCIAL CONVERGENCE IN THE EU – A strategic dialogue meeting with People experiencing Poverty

EAPN NewsBy Nellie Epinat November 9, 2015

Joint open letter to the European Council on Children’s Rights

EAPN NewsBy Nellie Epinat October 30, 2015

59 organisations including EAPN express their concerns on the lack of attention afforded to children’s rights in these policy discussions and developments 30/10/2015 – Over the past few months, several European Council as well as Justice and Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Council meetings have been convened to discuss and develop immediate responses and policies…

Time to act to ensure children’s rights in the EU’s migration policy: 10 action points

EAPN NewsBy Rebecca October 30, 2015

Over the past few months, several European Council as well as Justice and Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs Council meetings have been convened to discuss and develop immediate responses and policies to address the recent increase in migrants and refugees arriving to Europe.

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