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Join the EAPN Campaign for an Adequate Minimum Income for All!

25 June 2009

Eurodiaconia strongly encourages all its members and supporters to join the EAPN (European Anti-Poverty Network) adequate minimum income campaign by visiting www.adequateincome.eu. The site is available in 19 languages.

Ensuring an adequate minimum income will only grow in importance as the social fallout of the economic crisis spreads. Furthermore, ensuring an adequate minimum income is a key pillar of the EU's Active Inclusion Strategy (the other two being access to social services and the labour market). Once you have signed the petition, you will be regularly informed by e-mail of the status of the campaign.

 
 

Jarmo Kökkö from Finland to lead Eurodiaconia

Jarmo kokko new chairman of eurodiaconia
8 June 2009

Jarmo Kökkö from Finland has been elected by the Eurodiaconia Supervisory Board as Chairman at its meeting on 5 June 2009. Mr Kökkö is a senior member of staff at the Helsinki Deaconess Institute (Helsingin Diakonissalaitos) and brings experience in diaconal service both in Europe and further afield. Mr Kökkö has already been a member of the Eurodiaconia Supervisory Board since 2007. He will be supported in this work by Klaus Dieter Kottnik of Diakonisches Werk der EKD in Germany, who was elected to the role of Vice-Chairman and Financial Advisor. Mr Kottnick has also been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2007.

 
 

Eurodiaconia holds successful AGM in Uppsala, Sweden

8 June 2009

3 – 5 June saw nearly 50 representatives of Eurodiaconia member organisations gather in Uppsala, Sweden for the Eurodiaconia Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Topics for discussion included our vision of social Europe, our plans for the 2010 European Year to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion, faith in social care and the start of the planning of our next strategic plan from 2011. In the business session delegates received a report on the work of 2008, approved the workplan for 2009 and approved draft budgets and fees for 2010. Furthermore the annual theme for 2010 was agreed as being combating poverty and social exclusion – the role of diaconia.

The AGM business session also elected a new member of the Supervisory Board. Jens Aage Bjorkoe, nominated by Dansk Diaconrad and Director of Kofoeds School in Denmark joins the board with immediate effect.
 
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2009 European Elections

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Between 4-7 June 2009, citizens of all 27 Member States of the European Union expressed their vision for Europe by electing a new European Parliament. Click here to see election results.

Prior to the elections, we joined with ecumenical partners Aprodev, CEC and CCME to produce a short pamphlet on the elections developed specifically from a Christian perspective. It is available in English, French, and German in both printed and electronic form. It will also be available in electronic form in Czech, Greek, Hungarian and Italian. It is supported by the website www.ecumenicalvoices2009.eu.

This was originally designed to help members engage with the European elections. It can now help them get to know their new Members of European Parliament and plan lobbying strategies.

Eurodiaconia also created its own briefings on a few topics of great importance to our members. These describe the issue, explain the role of the EU and the European Parliament in it, and provide links to additional resources:

The Impact of EU Rules on Social Care
Quality in Social Care
 Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
EU Structural Funds
Social Side of the EU


 

We also assembled additional resources from other organisations, including NGO toolkits and election manifestos from European political parties.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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