AGF Pressemitteilung

Family organizations call for adequate financed and needs-based design of basic child allowance

Berlin, 3 March 2023 – The family organizations united in the AGF call on the federal government to provide the basic child allowance agreed in the coalition agreement with sufficient financial resources to ensure that children are permanently protected from poverty. The bundling of family policy benefits and the dismantling of barriers to their use are important components of the […]

AGF EuropaNews February 2023

In our February issue of EuropaNews we cover the latest steps in the EU child guarantee’s implementation process, the recommendation on adequate minimum income and recent developments in creating a UN convention on the rights of older people. As usual we also inform about family and social policy news on the European level and from the member states. We also […]

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European Child Guarantee: Overview of selected aspects of the National Action Plans

To combat child poverty, the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of the European Union decided in 2021 to establish a “European Child Guarantee”. It aims to “prevent and combat social exclusion by guaranteeing access for children in need to a range of essential services, thereby also contributing to the protection of children’s rights by tackling child poverty […]

AGF exhibitions

There are two exhibition by AGF that can both be rented free of charge: Children’s world Child poverty has many faces. Germany is not an exception to this fact. More than 19 % of children and young people, 2,4 million, are threatened by poverty in Germany and this is on the increase. For these children that results in restrictions on […]

Photo exhibition: Children’s world

Child poverty has many faces. Germany is not an exception to this fact. More than 19 % of children and young people, 2,4 million, are threatened by poverty in Germany and this is on the increase. For these children that results in restrictions on their daily lives, fewer books, sharing a room and less room for play and development. The […]

AGF-exhibition on development of German family policy

The exhibition shows the development of the German family policy. It was created on occasion of the 60th anniversary of AGF in 2014 and is linked to brochure on the history of AGF. Both the exhibition and the brochure are in German language and can be rented resp. ordered at AGF free of charge. The exhibition is made in form […]

AGF EuropaNews January 2023

This year’s first issue of EuropaNews was published today. We cover the EU child guarantee’s implementation process and the EESC’s statement on the care strategy. We also point to the UN’s call for contributions to the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing. As usual, we also inform about family and social policy developments in Europe and recommend current publications and events. […]

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Archive of EuropaNews

Here you will find all issues of AGF EuropaNews starting with its first issue in May 2011  until the year 2017.

Further publications

Netzwerk (Network) 2030: Machbar-Berichte 2018, 2020 and 2021 (Doable-Reports 2018, 2020 and 2021) Publication series on the current system to secure a subsistance level for children in Germany The series covers four parts and looks how the German social law, the tax law and the maintenance law deal with the subsistance level for children: How is it defined and how […]