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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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Ligue de l’enseignement: Ways of Europe Meeting in Barcelona: How Can We Tackle
After two years of project, the final transnational meeting between participants of the Ways of Europe project took place in Barcelona from 17 to 19 March 2026. Coordinated by ARCI Solidarieta, the...
Ligue de l’enseignement: Welcoming a Group of Norwegian Teachers and Pedagogical Exchanges
On 18 and 19 March 2026, around ten Norwegian teachers working with adult migrants or adults with no formal education were welcomed in Paris. This mobility was organized with the Erasmus+...
Collective Leadership Institute: Are we up for bringing peacebuilding concepts to a world that
Guided by this question, more than 100 changemakers from different continents and sectors met online on 22 April for the 5th Transformation Literacy Conference. This flagship event from the Collective...
Million Moments for Democracy launches signatory appeal in support of public service media and
60,000 signatures in just a few hours! Million Moments for Democracy has launched a signatory appeal in support of public service media and is planning a protest march. On Tuesday evening, 21 April...
European Movement Italy: Let’s draft the MFF together
On 15 April, the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets voted by a large majority in favour of the interim report on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which is due to come into force on 1...
Greek Forum of Refugees – From Visibility to Influence: A Next Step Towards Meaningful
The Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR), through the Democracy4All initiative, successfully completed the Better Politics Accelerator 2026, a six-month global programme supporting organisations working to...
Europe’s culture, media, and civil society sectors unite to call for increased AgoraEU budget
More than 500 organisations representing Europe’s cultural, media, and civil society sectors have signed a joint letter calling for a substantial increase in…...
European Movement Italy: The unlikely mosaic of European leaders
The Heads of State and government of the 27 members of the European Union, together with the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von...
European Civic Micro-Grants 2026: Introducing the selected projects!
The European Civic Forum (ECF) is constantly working to improve its support to local organisations and movements, especially within its membership. That’s why we established the European Civic...