EAPN Slovakia
Poverty and Inequality in the EU is the first of EAPN’s “explainers”. Download here the first version, from 2007, translated by EAPN Slovakia.
Small Steps – Big Changes, Building Participation of People Experiencing Poverty
{jathumbnail}Small Steps – Big Changes is about participation and presents 10 case studies from members of EAPN about the participation of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion.
April/June 2008: Focus on Energy Poverty in the EU
{jathumbnail}Everybody agrees that people should be able to heat their home but his is fast becoming a ‘luxury’ for many people experiencing poverty.
European Network to reduce vulnerabilities in health publishes its first newsletter
06/10/2015 – Doctors of the World – Médecins du monde International Network now hosts a new network with members from 19 European States up to now. The Network seeks to decrease health inequalities and to obtain more resilient health systems across Europe, better equipped to deal with the vulnerabilities that contribute to health inequalities. It aims at implementing and improving quantitative and qualitative data collection among the partners to improve quality of service delivery and build an evidence-based advocacy for people facing.
EAPN’s Assessment of the National Reform Programmes 2014
8/10/2014 – This year marks the last round of National Reform Programmes (NRPs) before the Mid-Term Review of the Europe 2020 strategy in 2015. Whilst some signs of recovery have been seen in some countries, Europe’s social crisis continues to worsen, as a result of rising unemployment and continuing austerity policies.
In this context, EAPN members have continued to try to engage in the Semester and Europe 2020 process at national and EU level, with the hope that increased engagement could help to bring real progress on effective policies to meet the poverty target. EAPN’s report From Austerity to Inclusive Growth – what progress? builds on the 2013 NRP Assessment: Widening the Gap and EAPN member’s assessment and proposals for Country-specific Recommendations for 2014.
EAPN Italy translates the Adequacy Explainer
EAPN Italy has tranlated the Adequacy of Minimum Income Explainer. This book “explain” key issues and debates, which are priorities within the EU poverty discourse, in understandable, everyday language. Download here…
January/March 2008: The EAPN campaign for Adequate Minimum Income schemes
{jathumbnail}This new issue looks at the campaign EAPN launched last December for Adequate Minimum Income schemes.
The EU We Want: Views from those fighting poverty and social exclusion on the future development of the EU
{jathumbnail}The EU We Want is EAPN’s third book and is aimed at making a contribution to the debate and policies needed to eradicate poverty and social exclusion in the EU.
Latest ENARgy webzine: Migration from an anti-racism perspective
19/10/2015 – The ENARgy webzine aims to stimulate debate on anti-racism and equal rights. It provides in-depth analysis, grassroots experience and best practices on specific themes on a quarterly basis and acts as a policy forum. ENARgy informs readers on issues pertaining to anti-discrimination and anti-racism, with a focus on EU and national developments as well as ENAR members’ activities.
EAPN releases its 10 arguments in support of Active Inclusion
18/06/2014 – Active Inclusion is a strategy developed by the European Commission in 2008 and is designed to support people of working age who are experiencing social exclusion to live a life in dignity and help them move towards a decent job or to get more confidence and skills to participate more actively in their communities. However, little progress has been made in providing an integrated comprehensive strategy for active inclusion which combines adequate minimum support, inclusive labour market with access to quality services. In this short leaflet, EAPN gives 10 indisputable arguments for an integrated active-inclusion strategy, to reduce poverty, exclusion and inequalities and to enable everyone to live a decent life and participate in society.