Annual Report 2020
[Skip straight to Annual Report] Our collective resilience has been pushed to new limits over this past year. The COVID-19…
Eurodiaconia is active in multiple policy areas related to the fight against poverty and social exclusion in Europe and to the promotion of social and health care services to foster social cohesion. In this section, you will find our main news.
National Recovery and Resilience Plans: Where are the Roma?
Member States have recently released their national recovery and resilience plans detailing the projects and infrastructure they intend to target…
Porto Social Summit: all partners signed up to the headline targets set in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.
The Porto Social Summit took place on the 7 and 8 of May, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the…
EU Strategy on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings (2021-2025)
Eurodiaconia welcomes the EU Strategy on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings, launched on 14 April 2021, which aims at fostering…
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty calls for an ambitious social Europe ahead of the EU Porto Summit
The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, released a statement right ahead of the…
European Parliament & EU Alliance for Investing in Children Joint Manifesto on Child Poverty
On May 4, the European Parliament and the EU Alliance for Investing in Children released a joint manifesto on child…
An Action Plan on the Social Economy – an Opportunity for Social Services and Inclusion
Eurodiaconia has published a report on “An Action Plan on the Social Economy – an opportunity for Social Services and…
Recording of our public panel “Assessing the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan: The importance of active outreach measures to support access to quality employment for the most vulnerable” available
On April 22nd, Eurodiaconia organised a public panel to discuss how the recently released Action Plan can concretely support (diaconal)…
Porto Social Summit Key Moment to #EndHomelessness
Eurodiaconia has joined over 120 MEPs and 9 other social and housing NGOs in an open letter which calls for…
For an Inclusive Social Europe: The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan, the Social Scoreboard and the new “social rulebook” of Europe
Since the joint proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) was made by the European Council, the European…