Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centre | Winter Solidarity Bulletin 2016
In this issue of the DUWC’s Winter Solidarity Bulletin 2016, starts by the true story of a man who has had a nil income for weeks has been called in…
Maximising the contribution of the European Structural and Investment Funds to the Commission’s priorities
14/12/2015 – Today, the Commission adopted a Communication on the contribution of the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) to the EU’s growth strategy, the Investment Plan and the Commission’s priorities over the next decade. The report also includes the outcomes of the negotiations with all the Member States on Partnership Agreements and programmes and the key challenges per country.
EAPN recommendations on tackling long-term unemployment
3/12/2015 – EAPN welcomes the proposal by the European Commission for a Recommendation on long-term unemployment as useful and timely. While a number of positive elements are put forward, we…
EAPN’s initial response to Annual Growth Survey | More social investment but where are social rights and standards?
Brussels, 30 November 2015 – As the European Commission finally adopted the Annual Growth Survey package (AGS 2016) last Thursday, Commissioner Thyssen promised to put “social fairness at the heart…
EAPN’s initial response to Annual Growth Survey | More social investment but where are social rights and standards?
Brussels, 30 November 2015 – As the European Commission finally adopted the Annual Growth Survey package (AGS 2016) last Thursday, Commissioner Thyssen promised to put “social fairness at the heart of our economic recovery. Member States need to overcome bottlenecks to job creation, improve the way labour markets work and make sure everybody in Europe can enjoy a decent level of social protection if we want to achieve more convergence.” However, the evidence of this new approach is not so clear, nor does the package contain any mention of the promised Social Pillar on rights and social standards.
DELIVERING SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH STRUCTURAL FUNDS EAPN Structural Funds Good-Practice Handbook
02/02/2015 – Delivering Social Inclusion Through Structural Funds is EAPN’s latest handbook for NGOs on how to use Structurals Funds for social inclusion. Compiled by EAPN Members, it outlines EAPN’s…
EAPN’s 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE | How will the Europe 2020 Strategy Mid-Term Review reduce poverty and inequality?
Seminar and Roundtable Debate EAPN organised a round table on Friday 3 October 2014 to present its own assessment and proposals and to create a space for debate between EU…
EU countries are dismantling barriers to the European Single Market
17/07/2014 – Since last summer, EU countries have stepped up their efforts to make it easier to live, work or do business in another EU country, according to the latest edition of the Single Market Scoreboard released by the European Commission today.
EAPN Mag 2/2013: Welfare States and Democracy: from Reality to Utopia?
Safeguarding ‘well-being for all’: now or never This new EAPN Mag discusses our welfare states, their future and the possible alternatives at our disposal, should there be political will to…
EAPN Mag 2/2013: Welfare States and Democracy: from Reality to Utopia?
Safeguarding ‘well-being for all’: now or never
This new EAPN Mag discusses our welfare states, their future and the possible alternatives at our disposal, should there be political will to support them.Francine Mestrum, Coordinator of Global Social Justice, opens the discussion, on social protection as a common ideal. You then get an insight on the attack on the welfare state in 4 bail-out countries, namely Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Romania. France, the UK and Macedonia, as a candidate country to the EU, get also a particular focus. 3 other organisations, the European Public Services Union (EPSU), Caritas and the ILO, have also contributed to this Mag and share the conviction that Change is possible, should political leaders want it!