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Opening of the 2010 Year in France!

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 10, 2010

László Andor, the new EU Commissioner responsible for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion attended the opening conference of the 2010 European Year in Paris. It was the first public engagement of the EU Commissioner. 60 projects that will receive funding from the National Implementing Body in France were presented. In his intervention, Fintan Farrell, Director of EAPN, called for support for an EU target in the fight against poverty and social exclusion…

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EAPN Policy Briefing – February 2010

Policy briefingsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 10, 2010

Discover the new version of EAPN Policy Briefing.Download the latest update (February 2010): Word – PDF

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EAPN Policy Briefing – October 2009

Policy briefingsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 10, 2010

Download the latest issue (October 2009) of the EAPN Policy Briefing: Word – PDF

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EAPN and CECODHAS Joint Conference on Energy Poverty – 24 March 2010

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 10, 2010

{jathumbnail}The European Anti‐Poverty Network (EAPN) and CECODHAS Housing Europe will be holding a Conference entitled “Getting to grips with energy poverty. From EU to Cities to Homes” on Wednesday 24 March from 09.00 – 13.00 in Brussels, within the European Sustainable Energy Week and also as part of the 2010 European Year.

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New publication “Ways out of Poverty”

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 10, 2010

Michaela Moser, Vice‐President of the European Anti‐Poverty Network and Martin Schenk, Policy Specialist at Diakonia Austria, co‐authored a book called Es Reicht! Für Alle! (“Ways Out of Poverty”), available in German. This publication focuses on the political and societal needs to empower people to get out of poverty. Read more on the website of hanser-literaturverlage.de.

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EAPN speaks in Spanish NGO Conference supported by Spanish Presidency on access to employment for social disadvantaged groups

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 10, 2010

The conference took place on the 22 and 23 February in Madrid, organized by 5 Social NGOs who have been instrumental in coordinating Structural Funds programmes on action against discrimination against specific target groups (Caritas Spain, the Spanish Red Cross, the Luis Vives Foundation, the ONCE Foundation and the Secretariado Gitano)…

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Press Release: EAPN calls on Member States to support Commission’s proposal for a target to reduce poverty in the EU

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 4, 2010

{jathumbnail}EAPN calls on all Member States to make a historic step forward in EU cooperation by defending the Commission’s proposals for an explicit target to reduce poverty in the EU when they meet at the Spring Council on the 25-26 March.

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EAPN Ireland: Action Needed to Prevent Reversal of Progress on Poverty

EAPN National Networks NewsBy Rebecca March 4, 2010

“EAPN Ireland call for Jobs Strategy and Plan for Tackling Poverty”. A decade of progress on poverty in Ireland will be reversed without immediate action from the Government, according to Anna Visser, Director of the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland.

EAPN Ireland: Action Needed to Prevent Reversal of Progress on Poverty

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 4, 2010

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Press Release: EAPN welcomes historic target to reduce poverty and inequality – but how will it be delivered?

EAPN Press releasesBy EAPN Europe Staff March 3, 2010

Brussels, 4 March 2010 – EAPN cautiously welcomes the Commission’s proposals for the first explicit target to reduce poverty and inequality in the EU, as an interim target to eradicating poverty and social exclusion in the EU but is surprised that no recognition is made of the failure the “current growth and jobs” to deliver on poverty, exclusion and inequality and the lack of concrete proposals on how a poverty and inequality target will be delivered at EU and national level.

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