Election of tbe 7th president: Ludo Horemans (Belgium) and he will stay for six years (two mandates) as President (2006-2012) 5th European Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty “How do we cope with every day life?” The 5th Meeting took place in Brussels on 12-13 May 2006. The theme was “How do we cope with…
DetailsOn the eve of the Informal Meeting of the Employment and Social Affairs Ministers, EAPN has reacted to the Commission’s proposals for a new framework for the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) on Social Protection and Social Inclusion.
DetailsIn its response “Combating growing levels of Poverty and Inequality is essential for the future of the EU”, EAPN re-states that the continuing scandal of widespread poverty in a rich society, such as the EU, is intolerable.
DetailsEAPN Hungary has translated the second version of the Structural Funds manual, from 2006, concerned with how NGOs may best influence the management of the Structural Funds so that they may be effectively directed toward the reduction and elimination of poverty and social exclusion in Europe.
{jathumbnail}This manual is concerned with how NGOs may best influence the management of the Structural Funds so that they may be effectively directed toward the reduction and elimination of poverty and social exclusion in Europe.
Details{jathumbnail}EAPN Portugal published the second version of the Structural Funds manual, from 2006, concerned with how NGOs may best influence the management of the Structural Funds so that they may be effectively directed toward the reduction and elimination of poverty and social exclusion in Europe.
EAPN Bulgaria has published the second version of the Structural Funds manual, from 2006, concerned with how NGOs may best influence the management of the Structural Funds so that they may be effectively directed toward the reduction and elimination of poverty and social exclusion in Europe.
Can activation schemes work for social inclusion? This is the question to which EAPN tries to answer in a recent position paper. According to the Network, the answer is ‘yes’ provided that these schemes aim to meet individual person’s needs, wishes and priorities.
DetailsThe continuing scandal of widespread poverty in a rich society, such as the European Union where 68 million people live in poverty, is intolerable. The next round of National Action Plans for Inclusion must move Europe substantially towards the agreed EU goal ‘to make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty by 2010’. As the participants to the Liverpool EAPN General Assembly repeated: we cannot wait any longer!
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The outstanding innovation of the 4th Meeting is to have opened up the dialogue between the “ambassadors” of people experiencing poverty and “invited guests”, the key contacts at official and decision-making levels.
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