The Europe 2020 Strategy offered hope of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, setting for the first time a poverty target to reduce poverty by at least 20 million by 2020. At the mid-term of this objective, poverty has not decreased, but increased by 6.6 million to 124,2 – 1 in 4 of the population. Now with the launch of the public consultation to feed into the Commission’s Mid-Term Review of Europe 2020 Strategy in 2015, stakeholders have a key opportunity to highlight their concerns.EAPN organizes a round table to present its own assessment and proposals and to create a space for debate between EU Institutions and other stakeholders on how real progress on the poverty target can be made.  It offers an opportunity to assess why the Strategy and the Semester has failed to deliver on poverty, participation and growing inequality and to discuss concrete recommendations for changeto feed into the Mid-Term Review process.Language: EnglishParticipants: Around 30 EAPN members and 70 Brussels-based stakeholdersKey speakers invited:Kate Pickett, President Van Rompuy, from the European Commission, European Parliament, ETUC, other civil society actors and people with direct experience of poverty. Registration: at the email address found in the link to the right!