The long-awaited proposal by the European Commission for an EU directive on adequate minimum wages is out! With this proposal, the Commission wants to ensure that the workers in the…
The Europe 2020 strategy set an EU poverty target to reduce poverty by at least 20 million people by 2020. The poverty target was crucial, but failed to reduce poverty…
EAPN in the Media EAPN was featured in several newspapers: The Parliament Magazine The Irish Times Debating Europe Politico Mediapart EU Institutions Find an overview of how EU…
2021 Poverty Watch 2020 overview In 2019, 17.1% people were living on 9,212 euros a year; this compared to 16.8% (i.e. an increase of 4,073 people) the previous year.…
Together with our partners Caritas Europe, ETUC, Eurodiaconia and the Social Platform, we add our voices to the Council’s invitation to the Commission to “initiate an update of the Union…
In 2010, the JournalismPrize for respectful and profound poverty reporting was developed. The aim of the prize is to promote good journalism and poverty reporting which reflects the different aspects…
Non-governmental organizations in Slovenia are increasingly targeted by the government’s restrictive measures and hostile rhetoric. Especially NGOs engaged in independent cultural production and defending human rights, media freedom and the…
2022 Faced with the current situation, EAPN France is taking a stand to fight against inflation which is hitting people in poverty even harder. Solutions can therefore be found at two levels,…
2022 The latest statistics indicate positive developments in poverty in recent years: low income has fallen, as has the number of homeless people. The number of social assistance recipients has…
2022 The significantly elevated proportion of individuals at risk of poverty and social exclusion provides evidence that the social situation in Germany worsened during the Corona pandemic and reversed progress…