EAPN

Anti-Poverty Day 2025
2025-11-05 08:30 - 17:00 UTC | European Parliament, room ASP 5E3, Brussels, Belgium
The Anti-Poverty Day is taking place for the first time, co-organised by EAPN with MEPs from Greens/EFA, S&D, The Left, Renew, and EPP, with the support of the Intergroup on Fighting Against Poverty: a flagship event placing lived experience at the heart of EU policymaking.
The event will bring together MEPs, officials, civil society, grassroots movements and crucially, People Experiencing Poverty (PEP) to drive political development and policy change on the matter.
Join us on this day. Registrations open until 27 October 12.00 p.m.
Check the agenda
Register here: https://forms.gle/PztnZ6iEuZYR1VrW7

EAPN Talks: The Economics of Poverty
2025-11-12 15:00 - 16:15 UTC | Online
Speaker: Professor Daniel Zamora Vargas
Date: 12 November, 3 p.m., online
This opening session examines how inequality is structurally embedded in our welfare states. Drawing on key thinkers, we will explore the ideological shifts that have reframed social protection as a cost rather than a right. The discussion will place the upcoming EU Anti-Poverty Strategy in a vital historical and political context, asking:

What economic models have shaped today’s welfare systems?
How has neoliberalism undermined the universality of social rights?
What alternative visions exist for rebuilding collective welfare?

Fill the registration form to attend!
Link for the event: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86839398917?pwd=[REDACTED]

23rd PEP Annual Meeting Participation in Action
2025-12-11 09:00 - 2025-12-12 17:00 UTC
On 11–12 December 2025, EAPN will hold the 23rd PEP Annual Meeting in Brussels, bringing together people experiencing poverty (PEP) from across Europe. This edition consolidates and closes a year-long series of meetings and consultations focused on the upcoming EU Anti-Poverty Strategy.
The PEP Meeting is a key moment for driving political development and policy change, connecting people experiencing poverty from EAPN national members to discuss the challenges and advances in the fight against poverty. In this edition, participants will also have the chance to engage with political stakeholders, European institutions, civil society organisations, and foundations.
EAPN continues to strengthen meaningful participation of people experiencing poverty at all levels of governance — local, national, and EU. This year’s agenda reflects this focus, offering capacity-building workshops designed to equip participants with the skills, confidence, and tools to engage meaningfully, influence decision-making, and participate safely and effectively throughout the advocacy cycle. Workshops will cover communication, advocacy, inclusion, participation, fundraising, and more.
This year’s meeting follows two major milestones: the High-Level European Commission Consultation on Poverty held on 18 September 2025 in Porto, and the First EU Anti-Poverty Day held on 5 November at the European Parliament. The PEP Meeting aims to consolidate the outcomes of both events, providing a dedicated space for exchange and for amplifying the voices, experiences, expertise and proposals of people experiencing poverty — voices that drive change within political spaces.
At the heart of EAPN’s mission is the belief that the fight against poverty is also a fight to empower people living in poverty and social exclusion. Meaningful participation is not just a principle, it is a key driver for eradicating poverty.
Stay tuned to learn more about the PEP Meeting.

EAPN Talks: Digitalisation of the Welfare State – A Surveillance Trap?
2026-02-24 14:00 - 16:00 UTC
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 tools are strengthening access to social protection or creating new barriers for people experiencing poverty. The discussion will focus on fundamental rights, accountability, and the safeguards needed to ensure that technology serves social justice rather than undermining it.
Fill the registration form to attend!
Link for the event

Report Launch Webinar: Advancing poverty eradication through the European Pillar of Social Rights
2026-03-18 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Brussels)
EAPN is launching its newest report Advancing poverty eradication through the European Pillar of Social Rights with an online webinar moderated by Marie-Amah Kouadio.
In this discussion, we will explore how the renewed EPSR Action Plan, to be launched in July 2026, can align with the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy to ensure two frameworks with one goal: ending poverty in Europe by 2050.
During this discussion we will also cover:
– How EU economic governance can be aligned with the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR)
– The role of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) in financing social investment and structural transformation
– How can the EU shift from reducing poverty to eradicating it?
Register here and join us!

2025 European Poverty Watch Launch
2026-04-14 09:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Brussels) | 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 Strategies (NAPS), highlighting common challenges as well as good practices across Europe.
Built on a bottom-up approach, the report draws on findings from nineteen EAPN national networks. These findings clearly demonstrate the crucial role of coordinated action across all levels of governance, local, national, and EU, in achieving the eradication of poverty in Europe, a goal EAPN has been pushing forward. This objective has also gained renewed political momentum following commitments by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in September 2025.
Key highlights:
▪️ Insights from 19 EAPN’s national networks bottom-up research
▪️ Exploring how to promote and strengthen National and Local Anti-Poverty Strategies
▪️ Roundtable and Q&A with people experiencing poverty and EU representatives
Check the agenda
Webstream link: Follow Online
