The latest one:
EAPN letter to the EPSCO Council: Put People and Respect for the European Social Model first
Ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) on 9-10 March 2009, EAPN has written to the Ministers regarding the impact of the crisis on people in poverty and anti poverty organisations. In their letter, EAPN puts forward short and long term proposals to ensure that the needs of people experiencing poverty are included in the response to the crisis.
Download the letter: English – French – Spanish
Other EAPN policy papers on…
Social Inclusion
Building Security, Giving Hope: EAPN Assessment of the National Strategic Reports on Social Protection and Social Inclusion (2008-10) Read
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Employment
EAPN Letter to EAPN to EU Ministers of Employment: “The adequacy of Minimum Income Schemes is a key way to address the economic crisis” Read
The Lisbon Strategy
>>Will the economic crisis force a stronger social pillar in Lisbon? EAPN Social Inclusion Scoreboard on the National Reform Programmes (2008-10) Read
Structural Funds
Services
Participation and civil Dialogue
This paper makes a series of proposals for objectives which could make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty. It is important to note that the Lisbon Summit is the first to set eradicating rather than just reducing poverty as a goal.
This document is the statement by EAPN on the occasion of the United Nations Special Session “World Summit for Social Development and beyond: achieving social development for all in a globalising world” (Geneva 26 to 30 June 2000).
The European Anti-Poverty Network is pledged to bring all its activities to bear on eradicating poverty and wishes to stress that rooting out racism and poverty and social exclusion are two sides of the same fight.
On November 23-25 2000, EAPN held its ‘tenth anniversary’ General Assembly in Barcelona. This year, the keynote theme was: “Participation: an essential part of fighting social exclusion”. At the end of the General Assembly, the EAPN delegates coming from the 15 Member States of European Union adopted the following final declaration.
The representatives of anti-poverty organisations from several EUMember states, meeting in UNIOPSS’ offices in Paris on 7 October 2000passed the following resolutions addressed to the European and MemberState authorities, looking ahead to the European Conference on accessto health care being hosted by the French Presidency on 16 December2000.
It is not the intention to dwell at length here on what has already been done but to give an NGO perspective on the broader framework against which such indicators should be chosen.