Apply for the European Civic Micro-Grants 2024! (only for member organisations)
The European Civic Micro-Grants are an instrument of micro-financial support to civic groups, local initiatives, and movements in the European Union. The aim is to provide a flexible response and to strengthen capacity of organisations in responding to societal and political challenges, but also to build and sustain constituencies and engage in European network building and policies. Through its operating grant from the EU’s CERV programme, the European Civic Forum has established this granting mechanism for its member organisations, launched in 2023, and now available for 2024.
Greek Forum of Refugees: Joint Statement: Neither an accident nor an incident – A brutal crime in the Aegean Sea
The Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR) and the RISE Network (Refugees Ideas and Solutions for Europe) express their outrage, profound concern, and deep sorrow over yet another brutal crime against refugees in the Aegean Sea. On December 20, 2024, near Rhodes Island, the Hellenic Coast Guard deliberately rammed a boat carrying 27 refugees, including women and children, leaving eight dead, three of whom were decapitated…...
Collective Leadership Institute: Invitation Transformation Literacy Conference 2025 – Empowering Metrics and Enlivening Narratives for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
International collaboration is facing challenging times. Metrics that foster resource extraction instead of regeneration and narratives that highlight dominance and glorify past achievements instead of partnerships and future possibilities are still commonplace in many areas. As a result of the obvious gap between what is needed for people and planet, and what is done, polarization…...
La Ligue de l’enseignement: Launch of the 2025 edition of Social Rights Monitor
La Ligue renews its contribution to the annual survey on the state of social rights carried out by its European partner Solidar On Friday 21 February, La Ligue de l'enseignement took part in the Social Right Monitor 2024 evaluation meeting organised by Solidar, the European network of civil society organisations. This network, which counts over…...
Movimento Europeo: From welfare to warfare via the war transition economy
There is much, and perhaps too much, enthusiasm in the now variegated network of pro-Europeans that has spilled over from the ‘Ursula majority’ by embarking a part of conservatives and reformists and even a few federalists on Ursula von der Leyen's proposal to ‘rearm Europe’. Or rather: to rearm the national armies in the European…...
Ökotárs Alapítvány: What’s Happening in Hungary
A little more than a year before the next general elections scheduled to take place in April 2026, emboldened by the developments in the US, the Orbán government once again is stepping up its campaign against civil society (and independent media) with the apparent purpose to further demonise and deter organisations and activists. Since January,…...
RECLAIM: 15 countries and European Parliament joined forces with Commission against Hungary
Orban's attack on civil society won't go unanswered. After months of hard work, we are proud to announce a historic victory: the Hungarian government will face a united front consisting of 15 countries, the European Parliament, and the European Commission, in the largest legal battle for civic freedoms in the history of the EU. This…...
Greek Forum of Refugees: Neither an accident nor an incident – A brutal crime in the Aegean Sea
The Greek Forum of Refugees expresses its deep sorrow and concern over the tragic “incident” that occurred on 20 December 2024, in Greek waters near the island of Rhodes. According to survivors’ testimonies, a Coast Guard vessel violently rammed a boat carrying 27 people, of which 25 were refugees from Afghanistan, among them women and…...
Gong: Political and media education on the eve of the election
At the start of 2025, Gong organized a media literacy workshop for a group of interested citizens in Zagreb, where local elections will soon take place. This program provided an opportunity for citizens to raise awareness about digital challenges and threats to unbiased and accurate information during the election campaign. Participants discussed the difference between misinformation…...
Euroean Movement Italy: Call for Militant Humanism
‘What is needed today is a militant humanism, one that is saturated with the conviction that the principle of freedom, tolerance and doubt must not allow itself to be exploited and overtaken by a fanaticism that is without shame and without doubt. If European humanism has become incapable of a vigorous revival of its ideas;…...