« We are all experiencing a terrible health crisis today, a deadly crisis, that is challenging another crisis that Europe is trying to combat. For many years there’s a crisis going on in Europe that has been devastating, namely the crisis caused by poverty. Everyday millions of people fight to be able to feed themselves and their families, have access to decent housing and quality health care. Researcher are doing everything today to find an effective treatment for Covid19. One of the most effective treatments for poverty is already known: it’s offering every European citizen a decent income, that makes it possible to live their life in dignity and thus be freer, be European citizens.»
– Richard Delplanque, EAPN Vice-President, person with direct experience of poverty
« Every crises affect us, people in vulnerable circumstances, the most. When you already live in poverty you have no resources, no money, no energy, no food saved for difficult times. Every added restriction hits you like a rock, pushes you further into poverty and brings anxiety and fear, for example the fear to become homeless. Every country with a high living standard has the possibility to grant people a life in dignity, a life without the constant fear not to be able to survive : by introducing decent minimum income schemes. It is a political choice to help the ones in need. »
– Vera Hinterdorfer, EAPN Vice-President, person with direct experience of poverty
