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The seminar organised by EAPN in Helsinki gave the opportunity to 53 participants from 18 countries, including Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine, to exchange information and experience between NGOs working against poverty in the European Union and colleagues from Central and Eastern Europe, with the aim of mutual networking and working together to develop and reinforce civil society East and West.
The seminar consisted of a debate on civil society: the recognition of civil society and its role, East and West, in addressing the ‘New’ forms of poverty, for example that experienced by the unemployed, migrants and refugees, ethnic minorities, prisoners and ex-offenders, the homeless, and drug and alcohol abusers.