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The European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) is the largest 🇪🇺 network of anti-poverty NGOs & European Organisations fighting poverty & social exclusion. linktr.ee/eapneurope
🤔 Think the EU can end poverty alone?
The EU sets the agenda, but national & local governments are the ones with competence on housing, social services, and more. That's why we need strong multilevel plans!
Ending Poverty is YOUR Political Choice!
#EndPoverty #17October
🚨 NEW VIDEO: Why the EU's Anti-Poverty Strategy alone isn't enough.
Real change needs action on the ground. National & Local Anti-Poverty Strategies are key to turning promises into progress.
Watch & learn:
youtube.com/shorts/HQx3r...
Ending Poverty is YOUR Political Choice!
#EndPoverty #17October
On 5 Nov 2025, the European Anti-Poverty Day “𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦: 𝘌𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘜 𝘗𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺” will take place in Brussels. Together with policy makers, NGO’s and grassroot organisations, the voices of people experiencing poverty will be central and leading the EU policymaking.
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Anti-Poverty Day (5 Nov, Brussels) calls for workshop proposals. Want to make an impact on the next EU Anti-Poverty Strategy. Apply by 6 Oct.
Everyone’s invited — grassroots, PEPs, scholars, activists, unions...
Learn more: www.eapn.eu/anti-poverty...
For the first time, the EU will present an Anti-Poverty Strategy in 2026.
Poverty isn’t just an economic issue, it’s a violation of human rights affecting over 93 million people in EU. Yet, it’s addressed in silos.
That’s why a coalition of EU civil society organisations are calling for a strategy
On 18 September, Kahina Rabahi, EAPN’s Policy and Advocacy Coordinator, took part in the Porto Social Forum 2025 panel “Enhancing the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights: Competitiveness and Social Fairness, reinforcing each other.”
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Taking place right now: Workshops for the the First EU Anti-Poverty Strategy Consultation with the @ec.europa.eu and the collaboration of our magnificent participants and EAPN Portugal.
A crucial part of the policy-making process, bringing people experiencing poverty and policy-makers together
Participation matters. When people with lived experience participate, policies become more just.
Final training — after 3-months delegates will carry their learnings for a crucial @ec.europa.eu consultation!!
By training and structuring participation, we ensure influence, not just presence.
Front cover of PICUM's latest report on the criminalisation of migration and solidarity with migrants in the EU in 2024.
🚨 NEW 🚨 Across the EU, people continue to be criminalised simply for crossing borders or for helping others in need. Our new report is out today.
Key findings in thread and full report on picum.org/wp-content/u...
🎭 Epic Fails 2.0 – “It’s Not Me, it’s You”
Comms vs. Policy: round two.
📍 Brussels, 23 Oct
🕑 14:00 – 18:00
➡️ Share fails, survival tricks & learn to translate policy into messages that resonate.
📌 Get more info: www.eapn.eu/epic-fails-2...
Call for Workshop Proposals! 🚨
Co-create the #AntiPovertyDay2025 with @EAPNEurope!
📍 European Parliament, Brussels
🗓️ 5 Nov 2025
📌 Deadline: 22 Sep 2025
Open to #NGO, PEP groups, grassroots, think tanks, trade unions & MEPs (plus collabs!).
🔗 Get informed: www.eapn.eu/anti-poverty...
EAPN is hiring a Research analyst consultant to produce EPAN Poverty Watch Report by August 31st
🚨 LAST CALL – Apply by 31 Aug!
EAPN is hiring a consultant for our 2025 #PovertyWatch.
Focus: National & Local Anti-Poverty Strategies across Europe.
Apply this last week!
📊 Map & analyse strategies
🗣️ Centre voices of people in poverty
💡 Policy solutions
🔗 More info: shorturl.at/K0VDA
📢 EAPN is hiring a research consultant to produce our 2025 #PovertyWatch Report.
This edition focuses on National & Local Anti-Poverty Strategies across Europe — mapping what exists, what’s missing, and what works.
📅 Apply by 31 August
🔗Find out more at eapn.eu
#SocialJustice #EAPN
It is time the EU acknowledges that poverty is a threat to democracy, fundamental rights, and the rule of law. As the EU designs its next #EUAPS, we call on the European Commission to stir away from a framing solely focused on growth and competitiveness.
10.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Civil society fighting poverty is key to democratic checks & balances.
10.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0As outlined in our 2025 position paper “Towards the Eradication of Poverty”, poverty undermines the very pillars the Commission uses to assess rule of law:
🔴It blocks access to justice,
🔴Corruption diverts funds from essential services,
🔴Media often reinforces harmful stereotypes.
We believe the overfocus on the Single Market hides a crucial reality: Poverty is a rule of law issue.
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The European Commission released the 5th edition of the EU Rule of Law Report. While this year’s report highlights the link between the rule of law and the Single Market, it overlooks a critical issue: poverty.
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🔴 The only way to make the fight against poverty solid is to fund it. Read our full statement: www.eapn.eu/eapn-stateme...
08.07.2025 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📘 Read the report: www.eapn.eu/wp-content/u...
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🔍2024 was a pivotal year for EAPN. Our Annual Report is Out Now!
✔️We centred lived experience in EU policymaking
✔️We exposed injustices in digitalisation, work & welfare
✔️We challenged the idea that poverty is personal
After 35+ years of advocacy, poverty is back at the centre of the EU agenda.
📢 La sociedad civil española alza la voz en la #FfD4 de Sevilla 🗣️
Exigimos una reforma justa y ambiciosa de la financiación global para cumplir con la #Agenda2030 y erradicar la #pobreza. 🌍
España sigue lejos de sus compromisos. Es hora de actuar.
@maritmaij.bsky.social @marietouss1.bsky.social @julesbrussels.bsky.social @eapn.es @ec.europa.eu @europarl.europa.eu
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🟣 EAPN launched our Position Paper “Towards the Eradication of Poverty” at the European Parliament.
Poverty is political — ending it requires ambition, funding & rights-based policies.
📄 Read more: www.eapn.eu/towards-the-...
#EUAPS #EndPoverty #EAPN
The EU will soon be drafting its first-ever Anti-Poverty Strategy. The moment to shape it is now!
12.06.2025 11:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Eradicating poverty is a political choice. Alleviation of poverty is not enough, everyone, and not just some of us, deserves a dignified life.
12.06.2025 11:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Together with MEP Marit Maij (S&D), we’ll bring anti-poverty voices to the table on how to adopt a inclusive and multidimensional approach, one that goes beyond socio-economic factors and addresses the root causes of poverty.
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Join us on 23 June at the European Parliament for the launch of EAPN’s position paper, Towards the Eradication of Poverty.
📍 European Parliament, Brussels, ASP 3H1
🕘 13:00–15:00
📝 Register by 16 June: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us and help shape the future of social justice in Europe.
And Juliana Wahlgren of @eapneurope.bsky.social reminds us that while the participation of people experiencing in democracy is key „it is not fair to demand from people in poverty to prioritize democratic processes over their immediate needs.“
03.06.2025 16:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0A serious commitment to eradicating poverty must include candidate countries.
#EndPoverty #EUAPS #SocialJustice
