The Commission Lisbon evaluation and overview of the public consultation is a cause for concern for EAPN.
The Commission published yesterday their staff working documents on the
Lisbon evaluation and the first overview of responses to the Europe
2020 consultation. The general message from these documents is that the
Lisbon Strategy was working well until the Crisis occurred and that
there is general support for the Commission’s focus on ‘jobs and
growth’.
The European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) and Dignity International have joined together to express their solidarity with the people of Haiti at this time of enormous suffering and struggle for survival and recovery in their country...
The Spanish Presidency hosted the official opening event for the 2010 European Year for combating Poverty and Social Exclusion in Madrid on 21 January. The presence of the President of the Spanish Government José Luis Zapatero and President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso ...
Today, two days before the official Opening of the European Year in Madrid by the European institutions, the Coalition of NGO networks – the EY 2010 NGO Coalition - active in fighting poverty and social exclusion have held a press conference to present its key demands for the outcome of 2010, European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, at Les Petits Riens, a Brussels-based social economy enterprise.