14 October 2015 – As Chair of the Civil Society Days of the 2015 Global Forum on Migration and Development, Mr. Ignacio Packer, Secretary General of Terre des Hommes International Federation is addressing today about 150 delegations of governments, international organisations and some 265 civil society delegates during the Opening Ceremony of the GFMD.
01/10/2014 – The labour market situation of young people in Europe is one of today’s most debated topics, with unemployment rates reaching 23.4% in 2013, and over 55% in countries such as Greece or Spain. Yet, a less known number is even more staggering: 29.7% of Europe’s young men and women experienced poverty and social exclusion in 2012 (EU-28, Eurostat, 2012).
8/10/2014 – EAPN has invested a large amount of resources in trying to engage and monitor the delivery of the Europe 2020 Strategy with inputs to the National Reform Programmes…
EAPN welcomes Marianne Thyssen as designate Commissioner but is concerned by the loss of inclusion and civil-society engagement Brussels, 12 September 2014 – The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) welcomes Marianne…
EAPN welcomes Marianne Thyssen as designate Commissioner but is concerned by the loss of inclusion and civil-society engagement
Brussels, 12 September 2014 – The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) welcomes Marianne Thyssen as designate Commissioner, and hopes that she will work actively with anti-poverty organisations and people with direct experience of poverty, to defend social objectives and support an effective integrated strategy on poverty to deliver on the poverty target, particularly through Europe 2020 and the Semester. However, EAPN is concerned by the loss of Inclusion and the absence of civil-society engagement from the DG Title.
Next 17th October, on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the FBLP (Brussels Forum Against Poverty, regional member of the Belgian Anti-Poverty Network), organises a conference on Social Innovation, as part of the Festival des Libertés, with the support of the French Community Commission of Brussels-Capital, the King Baudouin Foundation and CPAS of Saint-Gilles. The content of the conference will be based on an inventory of 33 projects identified as a spearhead of social innovation in Brussels.
Poverty and Inequality in the EU is the first of EAPN’s “explainers”. You can download here the first version, from 2007, translated by EAPN Lithuania.
{jathumbnail}EAPN’s new manual on Structural Funds is specially designed for social inclusion NGOs determined to ensure that EU structural funds are effective instruments for making Europe a more inclusive society.
Small Steps – Big Changes presents 10 case studies from members of EAPN on the participation of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion. This publication highlights the diversity of approaches…
{jathumbnail}Migration is now the subject of growing political debate in many European countries. It is estimated that 2 million migrants arrive in Europe from other parts of the world each year.