Category Archives: Publications

EAPN position paper: Will Flexicurity meet the needs of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion?

This document gathers the EAPN position paper which was presented on the occasion of the Informal Social Summit on Flexicurity held in Lahti, Finland, on the 19 and 20th of October 2006.

EAPN letter to EU Prime Ministers on Flexicurity

Read the letter EAPN sent to the EU Prime Ministers on the eve of the of the Informal Tripartite Social Summit on Flexicurity held in Lahti, Finland on the 19 and 20th October

Report of the Fifth European meeting of people experiencing poverty, 12-13 May 2006

Read the full report of the fifth European meeting of people experiencing poverty which took place on 12 and 13 May in Brussels under the Austrian Presidency.

The EU we want – Report of the EAPN Conference on the occasion of the Austrian Presidency of the EU, Vienna, 8-9 June 2006

This report of the EAPN Conference ‘The EU We Want’, which took place on 8-9 June 2006 on the occasion of the Austrian Presidency of the EU, devotes to the results of the discussions and the key emerging messages from the conference.

EAPN letter to EU Prime Ministers and Heads of State ahead of the 2007 European Spring Council

Read the letter EAPN sent to EU Prime Ministers and Heads of State ahead of the 2007 European Spring Council..

The 2006-8 National strategy reports on social protection and social inclusion: What do they deliver for people in poverty?

This report presents EAPN’s impressions of the impact of the streamlined process on the fight against poverty. The central focus of this report is on the NAPs/incl integrated in the National Reports.

Making Lisbon deliver for people experiencing poverty: EAPN response to 2006 Implementation Reports on the National Reform Programs

This reports sets out the findings and key messages that have been drawn from an analysis made by the EAPN national and European member’s of the 2006 Implementation reports on the National Reform Programs.

EAPN’s report of the Malta roundtable discussion on the Structural Funds

This document is the report of the roundtable discussion “Structural Funds a contribution to Social Inclusion – focusing on establishing the best systems for NGOs to contribute and participate” which took place in Malta, on 2nd November 2006.

EAPN response to the Annual Progress Report and the Draft Joint Employment Report

In this paper EAPN provides a brief assessment of how far the new Annual Progress Report and the Draft Joint Employment Report have acted on its concerns. By doing a joint reading of these two reports EAPN wants also to check the consistency between the Employment focused orientations and the general Lisbon political framework they are embedded in.

EAPN report on “Social economy as a tool for inclusion”

EAPN recently released a new report on “Social economy as a tool for inclusion” based on a seminar the Employment and Structural Funds Task Forces of EAPN held on 3 November 2006 in Malta.