EAPN first response to the European Flagship Platform against Poverty
{jathumbnail}On 16 December 2010, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposals for a European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion.
“Laying the Foundations of a Fairer Europe – Ensuring adequate minimum income for all “… Conference Report is out!
{jathumbnail}On 24 September, EAPN and BAPN co-organised the Conference “Laying the Foundations of a Fairer Europe – Ensuring adequate minimum income for all”.
MAG 3/2010 – EU 2020 Strategy: will it have an impact on poverty?
{jathumbnail}EAPN campaigned to have 2010 as the European Year against Poverty with the knowledge that it would be when the EU would renew its key strategies and we wanted to ensure a strong focus on poverty and social exclusion during this time of renewal.
ADEQUACY of minimum income in the EU – EXPLAINER
{jathumbnail}This publication explains what minimum income schemes are at present throughout the EU and how and why minimum income schemes should be “adequate”, i.e. for everyone to live a dignified life, as EU Member States had already committed to ensure in… 1992.
EAPN’s proposals on the ‘European Platform against Poverty’
{jathumbnail}The Europe 2020 Strategy includes, as one of its 5 key targets, a target to reduce poverty by 20 million people, to be delivered through a flagship initiative: the ‘European Platform against Poverty’.
MAG 2/2010 – Migration: a question of survival
{jathumbnail}In the context of globalization, the phenomenon of migration has been increasing over the last decades.
EAPN’s reaction to the Commission’s proposals on the Integrated Guidelines for Europe 2020
{jathumbnail}EAPN’s reaction to the Commission’s proposals for Integrated Guidelines for the Europe 2020 strategy.
MAG 1/2010 – Will 2010 mark a turning point for Social Europe?
{jathumbnail}What does the 2010 European Year combating poverty and social exclusion mean concretely? Who is involved? Will it mark a turning point in European social policies and for the 16,6% of Europeans facing poverty?
EAPN Lithuania – Poverty explainer
Poverty and Inequality in the EU is the first of EAPN’s “explainers”. You can download here the first version, from 2007, translated by EAPN Lithuania.
Poverty and Inequality in the EU – EXPLAINER
{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.