19.10.2010: Alliance expert discussion for reduced VAT

More than 20 organizations and corporations met to have an intensive debate concerning reduced value added tax (VAT) on children’s products. All those present were in full agreement that this would be not only of great symbolic meaning for families but also an important relief of the financial strain. The AGF invited to the meeting, as not only does the […]

01.09.2010: Background discussion of AGF and European Commission

The AGF and the European Commission jointly organised a background discussion on child poverty. Representatives of NGO, of the European Commission as well as members of the European and the German Parliament were discussing in Brussels. On the day exactly a year after the successful conference on child poverty in Europe, the participants discussed central issues for the removal and […]

Family Organisations: crisis must be occasion for long-term concepts

[04.06.2010] The current savings suggestions and cut backs, meet with a lack of comprehension from those family organisations united in the AGF. They are pleading, instead, for a future oriented policy which puts the interests of the next generations in the foreground. “Now, above all, where the sense of future investments is evident the discussion is running with backward direction […]

Family organizations welcome the judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court on Hartz IV

[09.02.2010] Family organizations welcome the judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court on Hartz IV (unemployment benefit) articles on the standard (support) rates for children, and suggest dialog for its reworking. The family organizations united in the AGF welcome today’s judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court as an important corner stone in relation to children and their families. They offer […]

31.08-01.09.2009: AGF conference on Child Poverty

Cover of the documentation in german The documentation from the AGF international conference on „ Child Poverty – a European Challenge “ which took place on the 31st of August and 01st of September, 2009 now appears in both German and English. Over the course of two days experts from different European states had discussions on the subject of child […]

Events and Conferences before 2009

Children need Future – for an Europe without Poverty! Date: 14 November 2008 The event was directed at representatives of family-political and child-political organizations as well as at well-known scientists and academics from the European member states. In focus was the exchange of ideas and exchange of experience among the masses, the causes and the results of child poverty in […]