October/December 2007: Inclusion in Structural Funds 2007-2013
{jathumbnail}Often presented as the EU’s main success story and solidarity instrument, structural funds have been at the heart of the EU’s 50th anniversary in 2007.
EAPN supports people fleeing war, persecution & poverty in an open letter from the Social Platform #weapologise
08/09/2015 46 civil-society organisations and networks, including EAPN, sent an open letter to people fleeing war, persecution and poverty. on behalf of our national and European leaders for their inexcusable lack of coordinated humanitarian aid to the situation you and thousands of others are in while crossing our borders to escape war, persecution and poverty. This message #weapologise was spread out on the day of President Juncker’s State of the Union speech (08/09/2015) and ahead of the European Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on 14 September.
The Poverty Alliance responds to latest food bank statistics
16/04/2014 – Figures published by the Trussell Trust today show a fivefold increase in demand for food banks. In 2013/14, 913,138 men, women and children used a Trussell Trust food…
EAPN Ireland: 1.2 million people now experience deprivation, twice the pre-recession figure
16/04/2014 – CSO figures published today show that 1.2 million people now experience deprivation, twice the pre-recession figure. “Nice words about ‘protecting the most vulnerable’ are not enough. We need a concerted plan to address poverty as part of our plan for recovery.”
Housing and shelter insufficient for undocumented migrants in Europe
BRUSSELS, 28 June, 2013 – On the occasion of its annual international conference in Brussels, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) joined together with the European Federation of National Organisations working with the homeless (FEANTSA) and the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) to call on policymakers and local authorities in Europe to strengthen efforts to enforce the right to housing for undocumented migrants, despite economic constraints.
Inclusion of Roma and Travellers in the EU: EAPN Briefing
{jathumbnail}This briefing note aims at highlighting the work of many EAPN members who work directly on issues of Roma Inclusion. Roma have been identified as a priority group at risk of poverty and social exclusion in the National Strategic Reports on social protection and social inclusion, as part of the Social OMC.
July/September 2007: Focus on participation
{jathumbnail}This issue of Network News looks into what participation really means.
EAPN 2015 Annual Policy Conference | Can the Semester deliver on poverty and participation? #2015EAPN
Friday 9th October, EAPN held its annual policy conference where it presented its Assessment of the 2015 National Reform Programmes (NRPs) and European Semester, and debated together with 150 stakeholders including 80 EAPN national members, decision-makers and other stakeholders key questions: What needs to be done to ensure that the European Semester deliver on its Europe 2020 commitments to reduce poverty and promote participation? How can we help the EU move forward on a social, sustainable and democratic strategy that could give hope and restore faith in the EU?
Key speakers included Commissioner Thyssen, Outi Slotboom, DG ECFIN, Raquel Lucas, Cabinet of Commissioner Dombrovskis, Sergio Prieto, MEP & Tom Dominique, Chair of the SPC. The conference opened with a video by Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament.
Members of the EP, EESC, ETUC, and other civil society actors including people with direct experience of poverty were present. The event was hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) /SOC Section.
The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland): Welcome Progress on the Living Wage and Procurement
The Scottish Living Wage Campaign has welcomed the announcement by Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP that the Scottish Government is to amend the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Bill to require local authorities to include the living wage as part of the evaluation process in procurement processes.
The European Council must launch a democratic debate to ensure an ambitious social dimension of the European Monetary Union (EMU)!
Brussels, 26 June 2013 – EAPN has written to the Prime Ministers prior to their meeting on the 27-28 June, where a discussion will take place on the next steps for President Van Rompuy’s proposals for a social dimension of the EMU. EAPN sets out concrete proposals and calls for a democratic debate to ensure that the social dimension is not reduced to an instrument of economic policy but contributes to a vision for an EU based on social rights and solidarity.