FNARS (EAPN France member): Eviction is not a solution!
The ‘winter break’ ends on 15 March, which means families can now be expelled soon.
DetailsThe Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland): Party leaders condemn stigma as new report highlights trend toward blaming the poor for their poverty
The First Minister and leaders of all the Hoyrood parties today signed a Stick your Labels statement condemning the stigmatisation of people in poverty.
DetailsEAPN Austria: the new economic governance producing poverty in Europe…
11.03.2011 – In a press release, EAPN Austria criticised European Ministers for using the EU project in the interest of the wealthy and the Head of States for breaking once more their promise to reduce poverty. In its press release EAPN Austria also urged Austrian politicians to fight for a social Europe.
DetailsDerbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centres (member of EAPN UK): Derbyshire County Council withdraw support
Supporters of Derbyshire Unemployed Workers’ Centres have described the decision of Derbyshire County Council to completely withdraw its annual grant support as ‘utterly reckless’.
DetailsSpring Social Conference
On 10-11 March representatives of trade unions, NGOs, and social networks from 15 EU countries got together for the first Spring Social Conference, in which also EAPN participated.
DetailsPress release: Were EU leaders serious when committing to poverty-reduction target?
{jathumbnail}Brussels, 23 March 2011 – In advance of the Spring Council 24-25 March, EAPN wrote to the Prime Ministers and Heads of State and Governments, to express its alarm at the current discussions and decisions taking place on Economic Governance (Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact and the Pact for the Euro), happening without adequate public and democratic scrutiny and without a proper assessment of their social impact.
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MAG 1/2011 – Volunteering: a tool for inclusion?
{jathumbnail}In 2011, the spotlight shifts from Poverty and Social Exclusion to Volunteering, with the baton passed from the EU Year for combating poverty and social exclusion to the EU Year of volunteering. What is the link? How can we build on the strengths of volunteering yet guard against the risks of abuse in the context…
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MAG 1/2011 – Volunteering: a tool for inclusion?
{jathumbnail}In 2011, the spotlight shifts from Poverty and Social Exclusion to Volunteering, with the baton passed from the EU Year for combating poverty and social exclusion to the EU Year of volunteering. What is the link? How can we build on the strengths of volunteering yet guard against the risks of abuse in the context of current attacks on Europe’s welfare State and social model?
DetailsETUI-EPSU Conference – Austerity, economic governance reforms and social policies in Europe
EAPN’s Policy Coordinator Sian Jones, gave a presentation on the social impact of austerity measures at The European Trade Union Institute and the European Public Sector Unions joint conference on Austerity, economic governance reforms and social policies in Europe in Brussels.
DetailsThe story of Dimitrijus, volunteer in EAPN Lithuania
Learnt Lithuanian
The parents of Dimitrijus (name changed) cared more of alcohol than of children and thus, at the early age of four, the boy settled in the children’s home. He remembers he could only speak Russian and being a problem child. “After some time, I started speaking Lithuanian. Also, I learnt to share.
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