« We are all experiencing a terrible health crisis today, a deadly crisis, that is challenging another crisis that Europe is trying to combat. For many years there’s a crisis going on in Europe that has been devastating, namely the crisis caused by poverty. Everyday millions of people fight to be able to feed themselves…
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Academic Rutger Bregman in The Correspondent – The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next? Prof. Philippe Delespaul in Sociaal Web (NL) – A virus in mental health care, a vaccine in the making? Lessons learned during the corona lockdown (article) Dublin City Community Cooperative – The Impact of Covid-19 on the Most Disadvantaged in Our…
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European Commission: European Commission’s Coronavirus Update page Timeline of EU Action Council of the European Union: COVID-19 updates’ page COVID-19: Council gives go-ahead to further use of cohesion resources European Parliament: What the Parliament is doing to mitigate the crisis? Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Eurofund Living, working and COVID-19: First findings Report ©…
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Alliances: EU Alliance for Investing in Children –Joint statement on protecting children and their families during and after the COVID19 crisis European Organisations COFACE – 8 key actions to help families & the economy bounce back Community Work Ireland – Marginalised Groups: Planning for resilience in the Covid-19 crisis Ensie – Call for specific support measures…
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The COVID19 pandemic is foreseen to bring severe socio-economic challenges that will affect EU children and families across the EU. The EU Alliance for Investing in Children launched a statement on 16 April to ask the EU institutions to prioritise children and families in their COVID19 response both in the short term and the long…
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EAPN and its members are concerned by the spreading of the Corona virus (COVID-19) across Europe and in particular about its social and economic consequences on people at risk of poverty and social exclusion and their families, but also highly vulnerable groups. Find here all the initiatives that the European Organisations (Members of EAPN) have…
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EAPN and its members are concerned by the spreading of the Corona virus (COVID-19) across Europe and in particular about its social and economic consequences on people at risk of poverty and social exclusion and their families, but also highly vulnerable groups. Find here all the initiatives that our Members have taken: EAPN Austria At…
DetailsWe are happy to present you our Poverty Explainer on the Multidimensionality of poverty. “The problem is not that we run out of money occasionally, the real problem is that we live our entire lives this way and our children grow up in this too”. For EAPN, the concept of multidimensional poverty is essential in…
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EAPN has a long-standing interest around the issue of education and its many aspects of access, affordability, quality and equal opportunities, which are crucial in the empowerment of people experiencing poverty and their integration in society. The links between education, training, lifelong learning and poverty and social exclusion are manifold. EAPN advocates for the right to universal,…
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