CILAP (EAPN Italy) welcomes invitation from Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs to take part in the Italian Operationnal Programme of the Fund for the Most Deprived

Rome, January 23, 2014 – CILAP EAPN Italia was invited to participate in the first meeting organized by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies related to the strategic role…

CILAP (EAPN Italy) in GRUNDTVIG Learning partnership Increasing Participation and Citizenship in Europe (ICE) Transnational Meeting on Prison and Poverty

AVELLINO 16 -19 January, 2014 – CILAP (EAPN Italy) co-organised the transnational Meeting Learning partnership Increasing Participation and Citizenship in Europe (ICE) entitled “Prison and Poverty – Tools and methodologies of participation”. This meeting is one of the 4 transnational events of the Grundtvig project “Increasing participation and Citizenship in Europe” (ICE). People in poverty, convicts and ex-convicts, people working with them or other disadvantaged groups, i.e. community operators and organizers, social workers, social cooperatives, associations attended the event, as well as people coming from the partners countries: Hungary, the Netherlands and Austria.

FNARS (member of EAPN France) supports the National Assembly vote on the Universal Rental Guarantee (GUL)

15/01 – The National Assembly adopted the Universal Rental Guarantee (Gul). In a context of acute housing crisis, FNARS supports the government’s willingness to intervene to secure donors and help households to access and remain in their homes.

EAPN Spain: Carlos Susías in the TOP 25 of Alternative Power

08/01/2014 Carlos Susías, the President of EAPN Spain, is one of the 500 most influential people in Spain in 2014, according to the El Mundo Spanish newspaper. He is also considered as one of the 25 most influential people in the alternative sector, i.e. significant people dedicated to civil society and citizens and social movements.

EAPN Ireland: Anti Poverty Network discusses Troika-Government Programme with European Parliament delegation

The cumulative impact of unemployment, service cuts, exclusions from eligibility for benefits and increases in costs for people on low income are deepening poverty and destitution. We need a new direction to create a more inclusive and equal Ireland.

17/01/2014 – A delegation from  the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland, along with the Society of St Vincent de Paul, today met with the fact-finding mission from the European Parliament’s Economic and Finance Committee to discuss the legacy of the Economic Adjustment Programme agreed between the ‘Troika’ and the Irish Government.