Speaking for EAPN, Fintan Farrell (Director) presented an analysis form EAPN’s perspective on the real causes of the crisis. He said that the official understanding of the causes of the crisis, in so far as we can determine an official position from the responses, shows a very different understanding of the crisis and led us to the disastrous policy of austerity. He said to achieve a long term exit from the crisis we need a more honest assessment of the real causes of the crisis and we need to concentrate on an orderly dismantling of ‘casino capitalism’ in favor of a more social economy and a more sustainable form of capitalism. In the shorter term he outlined the key demands that emerged from last year’s EAPN annual Conference “Is Europe 2020 delivering on Poverty”