From 2010 Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion to 2014 Year of European elections
giovedì, March 31st, 2011The full text of the E.M.E.R.G.E. publication can be read here:
European Union between defense of the Treaties and electoral consensus
The transnational research staff at work
lunedì, March 21st, 2011The E.M.E.R.G.E. partnership has realized the volume European
The publication gathers the results achieved by the trans-national staff of Italian, Bulgarian and Romanian researchers. It focuses on the activities held by the European Parliament and other EU institutions in relation to the main social problems in
This publication enables to deepen the new tool of democratic participation that from April 2012 will allow the citizens to directly begin the European legislative process: the "European Citizens’ Initiative".
For further information and for a copy of the book, plaese email: g.fiaccarini@sturzo.it.
More details about the new European tool of democracy
mercoledì, March 16th, 2011The Regulation of the "European Citizens’ Initiative" was approved on February 16th and published on March 11th 2011.
It can be read and downloaded here:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:065:0001:0022:EN:PDF
2010 was announced by the European Commission as Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. This is the year, during which European citizens should pay special attention to social groups at risk, groups that are deprived of active social life and/or active participation in the labor market. These groups most often include disabled people, people suffering from long-term unemployment, ethnic minorities. The European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion aims to raise the awareness of society regarding the groups at risk and to contribute to increasing social tolerance and improving of policies targeting those groups. 2010 is a call for decisive measures in order to fight the causes of poverty in order to secure a respected active role of each individual in society.
The faces of the campaign in Bulgaria and goodwill ambassadors who will promote the concepts of the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion include popular people, as well as people who belong to social groups at risk. The popular faces of the campaign include the pop singer Vladimir Ampov-Graffa, as well as the frontman of the popular pop group D2 Deyan Kamenov. “My goal is to inform people that need help about how the state can actually help them, because everyone deserve to get education, to work and sustain their families”, Deyan says. Little Dzhem from a small village near Plovdiv is also one of the faces of the campaign. Kapka Panayotova, chairman of “Center for Independent Life” Foundation has been working in the field of protection of human rights and rights of people in disadvantaged position, a representative of whom she is herself, for many years.
The European year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion had many state presidents wondering how to go about the issue of poverty, since they could not decide how the legal possession of a home counts in the assessment whether a person is considered poor or not. Because of this, the presidents have not been able to find a method to reduce poverty. Moreover, education and poverty were the only issues that the state presidents of the 27 EU member countries could not agree upon.
Romanian president Traian Băsescu urged the Romanian people to stop lamenting, because they are not the only ones experiencing the aftereffects of the crisis, and start working hard instead.
But despite the view of the Romanian president, Romanian city halls are fighting against poverty in their own way: by reducing social exclusion.