28/10/2015 – An Explorative Study of Children’s Rights in Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. The aim of the Speak up! study is to increase our knowledge of European children in vulnerable situations or with special needs, and their own views about their rights and what needs to be improved.
12/05/2015 – EAPN submitted today its contribution to the European Commission’s consultation regarding the provision of services to long-term unemployed in the Member States and at EU level. In its response, EAPN highlights that the long-term unemployed cannot be regarded as a homogenous group, and a one-size-fits-all approach will not yield the expected results.
18/06 – Among others, Eurocities statement on the SIP calls for stronger partnership working between different levels of government and the EU and for full involvement of cities in the EU-level mutual learning activities.
{jathumbnail}This publication aims to explain what wealth is and how social polarization is currently growing in the EU and worldwide, providing a whole range of statistics on these issues.
{jathumbnail}EAPN Portugal published the second version of the Structural Funds manual, from 2006, concerned with how NGOs may best influence the management of the Structural Funds so that they may be…
Following the work of the Social Platform Task Force on Public Procurement, the SP’s guide on the Public Procurement Directive in English, French, German or Spanish! Croatian, and Italian versions will be available soon.
10/06/2015 – On May 15 the Commission adopted their proposals for Country-Specific Recommendations (CSRs). EAPN responded with an immediate Press Release calling on Commission to issue poverty recommendations not only in 6 but in all Member States. This paper sets out the main messages and main recommendations from a more detailed assessment of the CSRs, as regards their delivery on the Europe 2020 Strategy targets on poverty reduction, employment and education. A detailed country by country analysis is annexed.
{jathumbnail}This explainer aims to make poverty more visible, understood, and acted on, as part of EAPN’s build-up campaign to 2010: the EU year against poverty.