PEP MEETING 2025
23rd European Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty to Strengthen Participation Across Europe 11–12 December 2025 | Brussels, Belgium Brussels, 10 December 2025 — At a decisive moment for Europe’s social agenda,…
Experts by experience and EVP Roxana Mînzatu met at Porto Social Forum 2025 to discuss the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy
People experiencing poverty contributed their perspectives in a consultation following von der Leyen’s pledge to eradicate poverty by 2050. Credits: EAPN Europe On 18 September, at the Porto Forum 2025,…
Poverty is not a weapon of war: EAPN stands with Palestinians
Brussels, 22 June 2025. The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) expresses its deep alarm with the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, where, for more than twenty months, the civilian…
Europe’s Social Protection Systems Under Pressure: 2024 Poverty Watch Report Exposes Current Challenges
[Brussels, 4 April, 2025] – On 8 April, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) will launch its latest Poverty Watch Report, entitled “Towards a systemic approach to social protection”, at an event co-organised with the European…
People’s Summit 2024 – press release
EAPN’s People’s Summit: Advocating for Ambition in the First-Ever EU Anti-Poverty Strategy Building the Future of Social Rights. Towards an EU Anti-Poverty Strategy. Brussels, [26 November] – On 28 November…
Press Release / An Exploratory Study on the Use of Digital Tools by People Experiencing Poverty
NEW REPORT REVEALS NEW INCREASED SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND POVERTY DUE TO DIGITALISATION 5 September, Brussels A new report by the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN), to be launched by 9 September,…
Commission proposal promises sustainability but continues funding contradictory policies! | Joint PR
Budapest, Brussels, Prague – Yesterday the European Commission published its proposal for the next EU budget after 2020, the Multiannual Financial Framework. Civil society organisations within the People’s Budget campaign [1]…
Participation is key to making Social Rights a “compass” for the EU!
Brussels, 23 November 2017 On 22 November, the European Commission adopted the Annual Growth Survey 2018 and the Draft Joint Employment Report as part of the Autumn Package of the…
End Poverty in Europe? Yes, we can! Ensuring we can all participate in society is the first Social Right
Brussels, 16 October 2017 On 17 October 2017, the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) calls on the EU to End Poverty! Tackling…
Human Rights first!
Brussels, 5th July 2017 EU must at all costs avoid a moral defeat and put in practice its best reasons for existing: solidarity, defence of human rights and peace. Thousands…