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EAPN’s 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE | How will the Europe 2020 Strategy Mid-Term Review reduce poverty and inequality?

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Seminar and Roundtable Debate

EAPN organised a round table on Friday 3 October 2014 to present its own assessment and proposals and to create a space for debate between EU Institutions and other stakeholders on how real progress on the poverty target can be made. It offered an opportunity to assess why the Strategy and the Semester has failed to deliver on poverty, participation and growing inequality and to discuss concrete recommendations for change to feed into the Mid-Term Review process.

The Europe 2020 Strategy offered hope of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, setting for the first time a poverty target to reduce poverty by at least 20 million by 2020. At the mid-term of this objective, poverty has not decreased, but increased by 6.6 million to 124,2 – 1 in 4 of the population. With the launch of the public consultation to feed into the Commission’s Mid-Term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy in 2015, stakeholders had a key opportunity to highlight their concerns.

Participants: Around 30 EAPN members who participated from the national level, including people with direct experience of poverty, and 70 Brussels-based stakeholders.

 

Programme

The programme can be accessed here (PDF).

 

Key speakers

from the Social Protection Committee, European Commission, European Parliament, ETUC, and other civil society actors and people with direct experience of poverty.

 

Presentations

  • Opening Session: Commissioner László Andor, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (video)
  • Session 1: Why is Europe 2020 still failing on poverty?
  • Voices from the ground: inputs from People with Direct Experience of Poverty (video by Nellie Epinat/EAPN)
  • Bart Vanhercke, Director of the Observatoire Sociale Européen, Can the EU become a Social Union?
  • Graciela Malgesini, Chair of the EAPN EU Inclusion Strategies Group, EAPN Assessment of Europe 2020/European Semester – 2014 NRPs/CSRs
  • Session 2: What needs to change? What recommendations for the Mid-Term Review
  • Paul Ginnell, Chair of the EAPN EU Inclusion Strategies Group, EAPN Proposals for the Mid-Term Review

 

Key related documents

  • EAPN’s Input to the Mid-Term Review of the Europe 2020 Strategy Can the Strategy be made fit for purpose enough to deliver its promises on poverty reduction? (October 2014)
  • EAPN’s Assessment of the National Reform Programmes 2014 From Austerity to Inclusive Growth – what progress? (October 2014)
  • EAPN’s proposals for CSR recommendations 2014 (March 2014)
  • EAPN’s Handbook for policy-makers to build stakeholder dialogue Giving a Voice to Citizens (September 2014)

The Commission’s Taking Stock assessment of the Europe 2020 process, March 2014, with a public consultation launched in May

See also this video explaining EAPN’s analysis of the Mid-Term Review in simple terms.

 

Conference Report

You can access the full report here.

Photos

Take a look at some pictures of the event on our Picasaweb album

Contact

Contact the Policy Coordinator Ms Sian Jones for information on this event and the issue: sian.jones@eapn.eu

 

Photo:  © Rebecca Lee, EAPN

 These events are supported by the European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity-Progress (2007-2013). The information contained in this document does not necessarily reflect the position or opinion of the European Commission.

October 4, 2014
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  • Who we are
    • What is EAPN?
    • Our members
    • Our structure
      • EAPN Europe Staff
      • Governing bodies
        • General Assembly (GA)
        • Executive Committee
        • Bureau
      • EU Inclusion Strategies Group
    • The way we are funded
    • Get involved
    • Contact us
  • What we do
    • How we work
    • Policy areas we focus on
      • Poverty & Fundamental Rights
      • Wealth & Inequalities
      • Employment
      • Access to Public Services
      • EU Funds
      • Participation of people experiencing poverty
      • Europe 2020 Strategy
      • The Future of Europe
    • Projects
    • Network Development
    • Campaigns & Alliances
      • Campaigns
      • Alliances & Structured dialogue
  • News & Publications
    • Press Room
      • EAPN Press releases
      • EAPN Clippings
      • National Networks Clippings
    • News
      • EAPN News
      • EAPN National Networks News
      • EU Institutions News
    • Publications
      • EAPN key documents
      • EAPN Position Papers & Reports
      • EAPN Policy toolkits & Briefings
      • EAPN Letters
      • EAPN Books
    • Upcoming Events
    • EAPN Photos & Videos
    • EU jargon explained
  • What is poverty ?
    • Introduction
    • Poverty : what is it?
    • How is poverty measured?
    • Facts & Trends
    • Inequality : what is it?
    • Causes of poverty and inequality
    • Sources of information
    • Voices from the ground
  • Members’ Room
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