April/June 2007: An inclusive Labour Market?
{jathumbnail}Flexicurity is now being promoted as a solution which neatly combines a radical liberalisation of the labour market with the maintenance of the European Social Model.
DetailsPress release: European Summit: A Social Europe…but not quite yet!
The European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) has mixed feelings about the agreement reached on 23 June by the European Council on the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) mandate which will provide the basis and framework for the drawing up of the new “Reform Treaty”. While welcoming the balancing between social and free market objectives and other positive elements concerning Social Europe, EAPN calls on the EU political leaders to secure social policy’s rightful place at the top of the EU agenda in the upcoming IGC negotiations.
DetailsPress release: Where to now on Social Services? Will the Commission take up the torch?
The European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) welcomes the initiative taken by the Collective SSIG FR in organizing the seminar held yesterday in Brussels (5th June) to discuss ways of moving forward in the debate on Social and Health Services of General Interest. This conference was a welcome next step, following on from the Commission’s Seminar on the 4th June which presented the findings of the consultation on Social and Health Services of General Interest and the related Study.
DetailsEAPN’s letter to the EU Heads of State and Government ahead of the June European Council
Read the letter EAPN sent to EU Heads of State and Government ahead of the 2007 June European Council
DetailsEAPN’s contribution to the Commission’s questionnaire on the 2010 European Year for fighting exclusion and poverty
EAPN and its members just released their contribution to the questionnaire sent by the European Commission on the 2010 EU year against poverty
DetailsNational networks’ campaigns
Here you will find all the campaigns EAPN’s members are involved at the moment or have been involved in the sooner past.
DetailsEAPN RESPONSE to the Green Paper “Modernizing labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century”
In its response to the Commission’s Green Paper on Labour Law, EAPN states that there is a need for Labour Law to adapt in order to play its protective function regarding the development of precarity and to contribute to an inclusive labour market.
DetailsPress release: EAPN calls on the Commission to ensure that social inclusion is given rightful place in the new Structural Funds round
At a crucial time when the European Commission has embarked on a process of scrutinising Member States’ National Strategic Reference Frameworks and Operational Programmes for 2007-2013, the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) calls on the Commission to live up to its responsibility and make sure this new round enables the EU to make a decisive impact on poverty and social exclusion.
DetailsPress release: European Summit conclusions raise expectations for the fight against poverty!
The European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) welcomes the European Council’s commitment to improve social cohesion and social inclusion and to give more attention to the fight against poverty and active inclusion. It is now time for the EU to turn these commitments into deeds!
DetailsJanuary/March 2007: Focus on Poverty in the EU agenda
{jathumbnail}It’s official….16% of Europeans remain at risk of poverty and 10% are in jobless households, according to the Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion, presented by Commissioner Spidla on the 20 February 2007.
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