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The Observatory for the New European Poverty (N.E.P-O) is a nonprofit organization inspired by Fair Use policies that brings together news published on media related to destruction of the Welfare State due to governmental cuts and financial attacks.
Research exposes scale of government’s social care crisis for disabled people in UK
Thousands struggling to eat, wash or leave their homes New research exposes the true scale of the Government’s social care crisis for disabled people, which has left thousands without access to basic care to help them eat, wash properly and leave their homes. The report, ‘The Other Care Crisis’, is published by Scope, Mencap, The National […]
Posted in: Disabled people, Social exclusion
Slovenia protest adds pressure to crumbling government
February 12, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN FOCUS NEWS AGENCY) The biggest anti-government gathering since protests against corruption and austerity started in November. Some 20,000 Slovenians took to the streets on Friday, adding pressure on a crumbling conservative government that is struggling to stay in power and avoid a bailout, Reuters informs. Prime Minister Janez Jansa is clinging to […]
Posted in: Budget cuts, Demonstrations & protests
Unemployment among ethnic minority youths in Holland passes 28%
February 11, 2013
The unemployment rate among people with an ethnic minority background rose to 15.5% last year, up nearly 2.5 percentage points on the previous year, the national statistics office CBS said on Friday. By contrast, the jobless rate among native white Dutch reached 5%, up from 4.2% in 2011. The increase was sharpest among the under-25s. […]
Posted in: Immigrant people, Joblessness
One for All?: German Court to decide on EU benefits case
February 7, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN SPIEGEL) Are immigrants from EU states entitled to claim welfare benefits in Germany? Chancellor Merkel’s government has tried to prevent this from happening, but Germany’s Federal Social Court will soon rule on the issue — and potentially set a costly precedent. By Maximilian Popp in Stuttgart.- Lazarinka R. thought she could make Germany […]
Posted in: Immigrant people, Repressive law
Flight from italian universities
February 5, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA) Equivalent of one university fewer in ten years. Enrolments down from 338,482 in 2003-2004 to 280,144 in 2011-2012. Shrinking teaching staff. Undergraduates, graduates, post-grads, teaching staff and funds are all on the decline as Italy’s universities struggle. The warning comes from the national university council (CUN) in […]
Posted in: Budget cuts, Education
Social care is bearing the brunt of council cuts, by Simon Duffy
February 4, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN) Statistical manipulation disguises the fact that disabled people are being hit the hardest by cuts to benefits and services. Simon Duffy *.- One of the extraordinary features of the cuts programme has been the fate of social care. At the same time as announcing the deepest cuts in public expenditure since […]
Ecuador takes Spain’s mortgage law to European Court of Human Rights
January 28, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN EL PAÍS) Public defender calls on Strasbourg to alter Civil Procedure Law on evictions. Ecuador has presented a suit against Spain at the European Court of Human Rights over the Iberian nation’s eviction legislation. Ramiro Rivadeneira, the Ecuadorian public defender, on Tuesday morning told a press conference in Madrid that Spain was “violating […]
Posted in: Mortgage & evicted persons, Repressive law
The Hungarian party FIDESZ wants to cut drastically the subventioned university places
January 25, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN THE EUROPEAN LEFT PARTY) The Hungarian government party FIDESZ wants to drastically cut the number of the high school and university places subventioned by the state, which means the introduction of full tuition fees for the large majority of the students. This measure will increase inequalities regarding education and aggravate the gap between […]
Posted in: Budget cuts, Education
Demonstration in Brussels against social dumping
January 24, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN EUROPOLITICS) Several thousand European workers from the building, transport and agri-food industries took to the streets in Brussels, on 23 January, to denounce social dumping and exploitation of posted workers. They demanded better protection for workers sent to a member state other than the state in which they usually work for a limited […]
Posted in: Demonstrations & protests, Worker's rights
Emigration in Portugal up 85 percent
January 23, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN CORREIO DA MANHÃ) The number of people leaving Portugal rose 85% in 2011, to some 44,000 compared with 2010, with the group most affected being those aged 25 and 29. Data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) relating to annual estimates of emigration point to 43,998 Portuguese and foreign nationals having moved […]
Posted in: Social exclusion, Youth unemployment
Spain Drains Fund Backing Pensions
January 21, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) Spain has been quietly tapping the country’s richest piggy bank, the Social Security Reserve Fund, as a buyer of last resort for Spanish government bonds, raising questions about the fund’s role as guarantor of future pension payouts. Now the scarcely noticed borrowing spree, carried out amid a prolonged economic […]
Posted in: Retirement pensions
Crisis sends French new poor flocking to food banks
January 21, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN EXPATICA) The world financial crisis is forcing more and more once relatively comfortable French workers to seek out charity food banks and soup kitchens to get a free hot meal. PARIS – “It’s tough to come here, I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it,” said one man, a former manager in […]
Posted in: Families, Hungry persons
Rise in young adult Poles living with parents echoes European trend
January 18, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN POLSKIE RADIO) A growth in the number of young adult Poles living with their parents is echoing a European trend. According to figures compiled by Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), 44.4 percent of Poles between the ages of 25 and 34 were living with their parents in 2011. This marks a rise of […]
Posted in: Families, Joblessness
Swedish unions propose profit cap on welfare business
January 17, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN THE LOCAL) The Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) has proposed a new type of company that would limit profits made in the tax-funded welfare sector, in a move that goes against the line of their traditional political ally, the opposition Social Democrat Party. Working for the public good and limiting how much profit […]
Posted in: Critical voices, Worker's rights
Red Cross warns: “Europe must be ready for popular uprisings”
January 9, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN REUTERS) Millions of Europeans who were relatively prosperous, now so difficult to get food on the table, that Europe must be prepared for popular uprisings similar to those in North Africa. The conclusion one is reached the International Red Cross because of the economic crisis in the EU. The world’s largest humanitarian organization […]
Over 300 health spanish chiefs hand in resignations over privatization
January 9, 2013
(PUBLISHED IN EL PAÍS) Center directors will step down when Madrid administration’s plans to outsource services take effect More than 320 public health center directors across the Madrid region formally handed in their resignations on Tuesday after agreeing last month to step down en masse in protest at the regional government’s plans to privatize some […]
Posted in: Demonstrations & protests, Public health
France as Europe’s next timebomb? Not with Hollande in charge
December 28, 2012
(PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN) The Economist’s recent warnings about my country ignore the opportunity President Hollande has to effect reform This week’s issue of the Economist is not lamenting the decline of the French bakery. With a bunch of baguettes strapped to dynamite on its cover, the British magazine is in fact warning that France […]
Posted in: Budget cuts, Critical voices
Slovenian public sector announced strike for January
December 28, 2012
(PUBLISHED IN THE SLOVENIA TIMES) Public sector unions will hold a general strike on 23 January next year to protest against layoffs in the sector, unionist Branimir Štrukelj announced before New Year holidays. The strike will be the “D-day for the public sector, when we will begin efforts first and foremost against layoffs,” Štrukelj said. […]
Posted in: Demonstrations & protests, Worker's rights
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