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EU Alliance for Investing in Children | Juncker’s Investment Plan – Investing in social progress, human capital, health and education

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 25, 2015

Press Statement of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children on the occasion of the European Parliament’s adoption of the European Fund for Strategic Investments

25/06/2015 – The EU Alliance for Investing in Children welcomes the European Parliament’s adoption of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) – yesterday during their plenary session in Brussels. MEPs have added important provisions on how the EFSI should be allocated which will ensure long-term strategic investments and societal progress, such as investment in targeted social policies in line with the 2013 Social Investment Package and support of projects in the fields of human capital, culture, education and health. In addition, we welcome the inclusion that the EFSI should contribute to achieving the Europe 2020 targets.However, the Alliance for Investing in Children regrets that investing in education from an early age is no longer explicitly mentioned in the adopted text. There is considerable evidence on the benefits of investing in early childhood education and care for all children for achieving long term results in tackling poverty, exclusion and unemployment.

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Human Right to Water and Sanitation must be in the Sustainable Development Goals!

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 24, 2015

24/06/2015 – This week negotiations on the final text for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are taking place in the UN. The outcome should be the final agreement that world leaders will sign for in the Summit in September. The current document being discussed is the “Zero-Draft” in which we want to see an explicit mention of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation in the final text, as stated and drafted by the NGO Mining Working Group.

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EAPN urges EU to tackle root causes of migration

EAPN Press releasesBy Nellie Epinat June 24, 2015

EAPN calls on the Heads of States to stop squabbling over migration and act now in line with our principles of solidarity and human rights Brussels, 25 June 2015 – As Heads of States prepare their discussion for the meeting of the Council of the European Union next 25-26 June, thousands of migrants set off…

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EAPN urges EU to tackle root causes of migration

EAPN Press releasesBy EAPN Europe Staff June 24, 2015

EAPN calls on the Heads of States to stop squabbling over migration and act now in line with our principles of solidarity and human rights

Brussels, 25 June 2015 – As Heads of States prepare their discussion for the meeting of the Council of the European Union next 25-26 June, thousands of migrants set off for the perilous journey to Europe risking their lives to find safety here. In the context of this humanitarian crisis which is unfolding every single day EAPN urges the EU and its Member States to live up to the principles on which the EU is built: human rights, solidarity and respect for democracy.

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The Right to Water: European Parliament to vote on 25th June!

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 22, 2015

22/06/2015 – Next Thursday, 25 June, the European Parliament will vote for the first time ever on the outcome of a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) – the right to water. Help us exclude water and sanitation from any trade agreement and send a message to your MEPs!

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EU 2020 Strategy is further off-track to deliver inclusive, sustainable, equal and social EU, writes EU Semester Alliance to EU Council

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 19, 2015

19/06/2015 – 19/06/2015 – The EU Alliance for a democratic, social and sustainable European Semester also called ‘Semester Alliance’ addressed a letter yesterday to Heads of States and top EU officials ahead of the EU Council next 25 & 26 June on the endorsement of the 2015 Country-Specific Recommendations (CSRs). The Semester Alliance highlights that the EU has failed to deliver an inclusive recovery strategy and that immediate action is needed to bring the Europe 2020 back on track with all its initial goals.

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EU Alliance for Investing in Children | Country-Specific Recommendations fail children. Urgent call to Action

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 17, 2015

16/06/2015 – On 13 May, the European Commission published its proposals for Country-Specific Recommendations (CSRs). The partners in the EU Alliance for Investing in Children are deeply concerned that the Commission’s fewer, but targeted, priorities fail to address the needs of in the EU, in particular over 26 million children1 who are at risk of poverty and social exclusion.

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EAPN writes to the EMPL Committee of the EP ahead of the vote on the Guidelines for Employment Policies of the Member States

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 16, 2015

12/06/2015 – EAPN has addressed a letter to the members of the European Parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs Committee, ahead of the vote on the Agea report on the Guidelines for Employment Policies in Member States, scheduled for Tuesday, June 16th.

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EAPN speaks at EP public hearing on “The Revision of the Europe 2020 Strategy”

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 15, 2015

15/06/2015 – Today, Barbara Helfferich, Vice-President of the Social Platform and EAPN Director will speak at the public hearing organised in the European Parliament on “The Revision of the Europe 2020 Strategy”. This public hearing is organised on 15 June as a follow-up to the European Parliament resolution of 25 November 2014 on the employment and social aspects of the Europe 2020 strategy which was prepared in the EMPL and should feed into the Commission’s public consultation on Europe 2020.

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Will EPSCO Council press for policy coherence on Social Europe?

EAPN Press releasesBy Nellie Epinat June 12, 2015

EAPN highlights major contradictions between commitments and policies on poverty Brussels, 12/06/2015 – EAPN calls on the Ministers of Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs meeting next week to press for delivery on Commissioners Thyssen and Dombrovskis’ announced priorities for EU social policy, which seriously contradict the current approach within the European Semester.

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