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.
Shadow Report project: European CSO cooperation for the successful implementation of the EU macro-regional strategies
The EU macro-regional strategy is a relatively new policy-making framework covering the Baltic Sea, the Danube, the Adriatic-Ionian and Alpine regions. It serves as an interface between EU and local level policy developments. The European Commission prepares biennial reports on the implemetation of macro-regional strategies. The latest one covers the 2018-2020 period and has all the characteristic…...
Event: Decode the truth on the European Union
Event: Decode the truth on the European Union Date: Thursday 11 March 15h - 17h Address: 16 Allée des Bosquets, 93340, Le Raincy Description: Le projet R-EU-Connected est un dispositif d’éducation à la citoyenneté européenne par des vecteurs artistiques, ludiques et éducatifs à destination des élèves et des enseignants. Ce dispositif propose deux parcours aux élèves du…...
Quo vadis? The role of civil society in East and Central Europe
On the occasion of #WorldNGODay, New Europeans invites you to join an international conference on The Role of Civil Society in East and Central Europe. The conference will be livestreamed from FB NewEuropeansNews All times CET. "Civil society organisations challenge injustice, oppression and brutality all over the world. The tremendous work of NGOs around the world is needed…...
Le Mouvement Associatif: Opinion on the BILL CONFIRMING REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES
The bill provides for the introduction of a "republican commitment contract" to be imposed on associations receiving subsidies and an extension of the responsibility of volunteer leaders to the actions of the association's members. These measures, taken in response to the deviant actions of a tiny minority of associations, will apply to all of them,…...
Italy: statement on the Conference on the Future of Europe
The European Movement in Italy: - Supports the necessity of an urgent start of the Conference on the future of the Europe in order to open the way of a deep reform of the European Union - Shares the idea that the Conference – as a public and democratic space to assure a constant dialogue between the…...
New Europeans: Europe Future Fringe
New Europeans in partnership with the European Future Forum (EFF) and Volonteurope has launched the Europe Future Fringe. The idea is for #EuropeFutureFringe to spark a conversation about the future of Europe, to energize the debate about what happens next. You can join the fringe network simply by writing to bureau@neweuropeans.net. Too often the discussion…...
A game for the social dimension of European integration. Unions in the starting blocks
While economic integration in the European Union is progressing, EU members are moving away from each other in social terms. Such a diagnosis was made at the international seminar „The (In)Visible East-West Divide” organised by IPA as part of the ARTUS CEE project. The expectation that wages and labour standards in Central and Eastern Europe…...
What citizens say about the EU in Hungary– a non-representative survey
Initiated and coordinated by European House Budapest Europa Platform Hungary is a grass-root civil initiative open to civil society organisations and citizens interested in the future of Europe. It aims to contribute to the successful proceedings of the Conference on the Future of Europe. Last year December we organised an online debate on how we evaluate…...
EUROPEAN MOVEMENT ITALY: Rule of Law, Spinelli Draft Treaty, Art. 7 TEU and Court of Justice
In its “European Constitution” (the Spinelli Draft Treaty establishing a European Union adopted in February 1984) the European Parliament has proposed that a Member of the Union should respect the Rule of Law and that the only authority having the capacity to judge about the violation of the Rule of Law should be the Court…...