Third Annual Convention of the Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion

27 November 2013 – [13:30 – 15:30]

Workshop 8: Reference budgets for adequate livelihoods (Summary)

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=88&langId=en&eventsId=927&moreDocuments=yes&tableName=events

Basic bank accounts for all

Anyone legally residing in the EU should have the right to open a basic payment account, and this right should not be denied on grounds of nationality or place of residence, said MEPs voting on draft EU legislation to this end on Thursday. Fees and rules for these accounts should be transparent and comparable, and it should be easy to switch to another basic account offering better terms, adds the text, which will now be fine-tuned with EU member states.

Plenary Session Press release - Economic and monetary affairs − 12-12-2013 - 12:23

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20131206IPR30037/html/Basic-bank-accounts-for-all

Social Innovation in Micro-Savings, Brussels, 9-10 September 2013

This major conference was held to disseminate the findings of a two-year project funded by the European Commission and organised in collaboration with the European Financial Inclusion Network. The project, Social Innovation in Micro-Savings - or SIMS - aimed to test and evaluate the effectiveness of various measures to encourage saving amongst low-income people, as a tool for social inclusion.

To download all conference and workshop presentations and to view a film about some of the pilot participants' experiences of saving, go to the

EFIN website

Household over-indebtedness in the EU: The role of informal debts, Eurofound (2013)

This policy brief highlights findings on a specific topic from Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) that is of particular interest from a policy perspective. It brings results of the analysis of these data together with evidence from other Eurofound projects to formulate a number of policy pointers. The focus of this policy brief is household over-indebtedness – in particular, the role of informal debts

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2013/73/en/2/EF1373EN.pdf

At risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU28

In 2012, a quarter of the population was at risk of poverty or social exclusion Corresponding to around 125 million persons

Eurostat Commission - STAT/13/184   05/12/2013

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Poverty Convention: conclusions and results

European Commission MEMO Brussels, 28 November 2013 The implementation of the Social Investment Package (SIP), giving priority to social investment and the modernisation of the welfare state, was the main focus of discussions during the Third Annual Convention of the Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion. 

Poverty Convention – conclusions and results