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New report documents continued decline in civic freedoms across Europe, with Brussels playing an ever-greater role
Unfounded attacks on NGO funding growing in EU, national parliaments Civil society increasingly cast as “foreign agents” New anti-protest legislation proposed in 7 EU countries Civil society continued to come under attack in 2025, with EU policies now playing a key role, according to a leading European NGO. The report, written by the European Civic Forum…...
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Euroean Movement Italy: Antidote Needed as a Response to Nationalist Degeneration
‘We are not an accident of History, but the children and grandchildren of those who managed to find the antidote to the nationalist degeneration that has poisoned our History. If we are Europeans, it...
La Ligue de l’Enseignement: Vocational Training to Include All Workers in the Ecological
Launch of the Second Year of the European Project Just4ALL From November 12 to 15, the Europe and International department of La Ligue de l’Enseignement, represented by Océane Danieli and Adrien...
The EU must ensure the conditions for an open public debate on EU policies
This statement was published by Civil Society Europe. As the coordination of civil society organisations (CSOs) representing citizens, we believe that the EU must ensure the…...
ECF suspends activity on Twitter/X
After more than a decade on the platform, ECF has decided to suspend its activity on Twitter/X with immediate effect...
JOINT STATEMENT – Against criminalisation of environmental activism and right to protest in
This statement was originally published by In Difensa Di on 12/12/2024 Europe, December 12, 2024 We, the undersigning organizations, groups and collectives working on human rights, climate justice and...
November 2024: Celebrating civic activism
Welcome to the ECF November Newsletter. In this edition, we take you through our busy end to the…...
Register now: Webinar – Micro-Grants in Action – Results and qualitative reporting
On 10 December, from 11:00 to 13:30 CET, join us for a webinar presenting the qualitative impact of the projects funded this year by…...
Human Rights Cities Network: Recomendations for the participatory monitoring of Human Rights in
Together for rights! ..but how?! The Human Rights Cities Network released the publication “Together for rights! ..but how?! Recommendations for the participatory monitoring of human rights in cities”...
Democracy International: A Stronger EU for the World
The A Stronger EU for the World Consultation seeks to collect views and opinions of people living in the European Union, especially on the participatory mechanisms it is equipped with and on the role...