10/04/2014 – EAPN Senior Policy Officer Amana Ferro’s spoke on behalf of EAPN at Unconditional Basic Income conference “Emancipating European Welfare” organised by Unconditional Basic Income Europe at EESC. Watch her intervention here.
22/05/2014 – As the European Union is developing its strategic guidelines on the future of Justice and Home Affairs policies, 38 leading organisations in the fields of human rights, health, education and social inclusion, including the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF, OHCHR and the European Network for Ombudspersons, are calling on the European Council to use the opportunity to advance on its achievements and commitments to every child, including migrant children in vulnerable situations, by making children’s rights a strategic and actionable priority for Home Affairs policy in the coming years.
21 May 2014, Toulouse – EAPN spoke in the economic policy panel in the EPSU 9th Assembly, held in Toulouse. The panel was chaired by Philippe Pochet, ETUI, who channelled the panel debate around the 5 key challenges presented by Ronald Janssen/ETUC : the lack of demand fuelled by austerity, the need for a rethink on ECB investment policy, increasing precarious work, and falling wage share compared to profits; the need for fair taxation to finance public services and benefits and reduce inequality.
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20/05/2014 – Dear colleagues, in past weeks Serbia has suffered from the worst floods in the last 120 years. Entire cities are destroyed and thousands of mainly socially endangered households are suffering from the consequences. In order to ensure the system of collecting humanitarian aid/financial donations, the Government of the Republic of Serbia established the…
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20/05/2014 – Dear colleagues, in past weeks Serbia has suffered from the worst floods in the last 120 years. Entire cities are destroyed and thousands of mainly socially endangered households are suffering from the consequences. In order to ensure the system of collecting humanitarian aid/financial donations, the Government of the Republic of Serbia established the mechanisms of collecting funds via Pay Pal system. All members of Antipoverty Network Serbia are involved in disseminatiing the information, collecting donations, providing voluntary support to the endangered persons. #Serbiafloods
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European Anti-Poverty Network and its members throughout the EU call on Europeans to make their voices heard and help shape a more social Europe
Brussels, 08/05/2014 – Anti-poverty organizations across the European Union are calling on Europeans to vote in the next European elections and elect candidates to the European Parliament who are explicitly committed to fighting poverty, social exclusion and inequalities in the European Union. In view of 9th May, which is celebrated as Europe Day, European and national anti-poverty networks come together to remind Europeans that the EU they want depends on the new Parliament they will elect. Over a period of several days around 9th May, EAPN national members, from Finland to Portugal, are holding national, regional and local events.
“Over the last months, EAPN has reached out to candidates to the European election asking them for their commitment to fight for a more Social Europe, free of poverty, social exclusion and inequalities. And many candidates have responded, signing up to EAPN’s campaign and its manifesto. This time it must be different. To safeguard Democracy we need a European Parliament that is on the side of the people and fully represent their main interests. And among the most important and decisive one’s is the fight against Poverty.” said Sérgio Aires, President of EAPN.
Details25/04/2014 – EAPN took part in ETUI (European Trade Union Institute) conference: “Benchmarking working Europe 2014. Evaluating 5 years crisis management.” The conference aimed at presenting the report “Benchmarking working Europe 2014”, reviewing the crisis and EU austerity policies in the last five years from the point of view of European’s social agenda.
Details08/04/2014 – EAPN spoke at the IMPROVE Conference on The distributive impact of policies before and during the crisis: Lessons for Europe 2020. The conference, held in the University of Antwerp presented the mid-term results of the EU funded project ImPRovE. The project is scrutinizing the impact of policies on poverty and inequality trends during the Lisbon era and the recent economic crisis, drawing lessons for the future. It paid particular attention to the countries hardest hit by the crisis and reflected on how the Europe 2020 targets can be reached.
Details16/04/2014 – Figures published by the Trussell Trust today show a fivefold increase in demand for food banks. In 2013/14, 913,138 men, women and children used a Trussell Trust food bank, an increase of 163 per cent on the previous year.
16/04/2014 – Figures published by the Trussell Trust today show a fivefold increase in demand for food banks. In 2013/14, 913,138 men, women and children used a Trussell Trust food bank, an increase of 163 per cent on the previous year.
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