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{jathumbnail}This briefing aims at giving members of EAPN and anti-poverty activists aclear overview of the functioning of the EU2020 Strategy and an analysis of EAPN’s positions and actions. Il also highlights opportunities for EAPN at the EU and national levels.
This position paper outlines EAPN’s key concerns on volunteering as well as recommendations to all stakeholders, to the non-profit sector, to the European Commission, to Member States and to the…
22/06/2015 – EAPN participated in the EESC public hearing on a draft opinion being prepared by Bernard Schluter, with the backing of the EESC study group. The EESC opinion aims to press for a coherent framework on basic principles from the EU with a stronger instrument to reinforce fundamental rights to ensure fundamental rights to social protection.
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…
08/03/2014 – The Child Poverty Action Group in association with the Poverty Alliance (EAPN in Scotland), the Open University and Glasgow Caledonian University have published a new edition of Poverty in Scotland series of books. The latest edition focuses on the key social justice and anti-poverty issues facing Scotland as it decides its constitutional future on 18 September 2014. As well as looking at the Scottish situation, the collection contains articles look at the experience of tackling poverty in Germany, Belgium, the Basque Country, Catalonia and others.
19/06 – European networks, including EAPN, together with UNICEF, urge Employment, Social Affairs and Health Ministers who meet in Luxembourg this week to act now and promote measures which lead to the reduction of child poverty and social exclusion in EU Member States.
{jathumbnail}This position paper outlines EAPN’s key concerns on volunteering as well as recommendations to all stakeholders, to the non-profit sector, to the European Commission, to Member States and to the business sector.
With the liberalization of energy markets and the rise of energy costs, Energy Poverty (or Fuel Poverty) is increasingly a growing concern for people experiencing poverty, ie between 50 and…
06/07/2015 – The EESC Steering Committee on Europe 2020 organized a timely conference on reshaping Europe 2020, to underpin the EU’s future strategy for a more inclusive and sustainable recovery to the crisis. Mary Collins, EWL, spoke on behalf of the Semester Alliance, highlighting its recent actions to support engagement by civil society in the Semester, including 3 successful cross-sectoral pilot alliances in Denmark, Bulgaria and Ireland. Ms Collins also presented the Alliance’s assessment of the European Semester, including the country-specific recommendations 2015, underlining concern about the disappearance of Europe 2020 from EU narrative.
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…
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