• EAPN Talks: Digitalisation of the Welfare State – A Surveillance Trap?

    Speaker: Bastien Le Querrec,  La Quadrature du Net Date: 24 February, 2 p.m., online This session will explore how digitalisation is reshaping welfare systems across Europe, from automated decision-making and data-sharing practices to the growing risks of surveillance and exclusion. Together with Bastien Le Querrec from La Quadrature du Net, we will examine whether digital…

  • 2025 European Poverty Watch Launch

    european economic and social comitee Rue Belliard 99/101, Brussels, Belgium

    On 14 April, the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) will launch its latest EU Poverty Watch report, “Promoting and Strengthening National and Local Anti-Poverty Strategies" (NAPS & LAPS), at an event co-organised with the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Civil Society Organisations’ Group in Brussels. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of current National Anti-Poverty…

  • 24th PEP Meeting “The Politics of Anti-Poverty: Participation, Power and Inclusion”

    The 24th European Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty will take place on 4–5 June 2026 in Larnaca, Cyprus, under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This year’s meeting, themed “The Politics of Anti-Poverty: Participation, Power and Inclusion” will make people with lived experience of poverty take centre stage…

  • Thematic Meeting on Inclusive Language in Social Rights Communication

    Our next Thematic Meeting on Inclusive Language in Social Rights Communication will explore how the words we use to talk about poverty and social exclusion shape perceptions, reinforce or challenge stigma and influence power relations. Language is never neutral. The way we frame poverty in policy, communication and everyday discourse has a direct impact on…