As the COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented fiscal challenges, the European Union (EU) has implemented temporary measures, such as the Next Generation EU recovery fund, to support Member States’…
EAPN joined a coalition of 13 organisations in a letter to Commissioner McGuinness and Commissioner Schmit calling to extend the current EU Taxonomy framework to include a social and human…
The European Semester continues to frame the recovery in terms of economic stability, productivity, competitiveness and free movement of goods and services in the single market, underpinned by weak social…
The 2022 PeP Meeting took place on 29 and 30 November, at a crucial time as the turmoil facing Europe had worsened already existing social injustices and contributed to an…
Minimum Income Schemes (MIS) are an essential, integral part of universal social protection schemes and a comprehensive, rights-based, person-centred active inclusion approach that ensures adequate income. They are crucial in…
How important is equal access to essential services, and how does this impact the socio economic inclusion of EU citizens? Does digitalisation serve as an opportunity, or barrier? What is…
Fifty million households around Europe are currently suffering from energy poverty. This means they cannot sufficiently light, heat or cool their homes. Energy poverty is rooted in structural causes -…
We are presenting our assessment of the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy (ASGS) 2021 and of the EC proposal for a Joint Employment Report (JER) 2021. Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021…
Poverty Watch 2020 launch On 29 January 2021, we launched our EU Poverty Watch 2020. The Poverty Watches start from the reality of people experiencing poverty and the perspectives of NGOs…
Following the recently adopted EPSCO Council Conclusions on ”Strengthening Minimum Income Protection to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond”, we wrote a letter to Commissioner…