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Europe experiencing “dangerous rollback of civic freedoms”, warns damning new report in “wake-up call” to EU leaders
Rise of far-right accompanied by a deliberate strategy to delegitimise civil society, through smear campaigns, SLAPPs, and restrictive “foreign agents” legislation Right to protest increasingly under attack, with Palestine solidarity and environmental justice campaigners targeted Government ministers in several states question international human rights law Europe is experiencing a dangerous rollback of civic freedoms,…...
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Statement on police infiltration in social movements in Barcelona
88 organisations declare their support for the five activists bringing legal action over the infiltration of social and labour movements by a police officer from the Spanish National Police Corps in...
January 2023 – A year of civil society mobilisation
Happy new year from ECF! 2023 is already shaping up to be a busy year as we take forward our campaign for a European Civil Society Strategy: to reverse the trend of shrinking civic space and to...
Civic Alliance – Latvia: Looking back to 2022
By Civic Alliance - Latvia The past year has been a challenging for each of us, both individuals and the civil society as a whole. In the beginning of the year, it seemed that we had overcome the...
EDITO – 2023 must be the year of civil society mobilisation
Reversing the trend of shrinking civic space and protecting civil society is vital to defend democracy. In 2023 we must take our campaigning to the next level...
Libera – Latest Updates
By Libera contro le mafie e la corruzione In December Libera contributed to the launch of the Create Balance campaign, as part of the EU partnership initiative WINGS - New Gender Strategies for...
Ökotárs – Our Union Values Programme has been launched!
By Ökotárs Ökotárs – Hungarian Environmental Partnership Foundation and its partners have published a new call for applications for civil society organisations committed to democracy, human rights...
European House Budapest: Shadow Report Praised by the European Commission
By European House Hungary The European Commission recently released its new Report on the assessment of the implementation of macro-regional strategies, together with a staff working document...
Fundacion Cives: Delivering solidarity messages through postcards – BEST project results
By Fundacion Cives The project ‘Building European Solidarity Today’ (BEST), co-financed by the Erasmus plus program, has successfully closed its third European edition (2020-2022). In a period...
European Movement Italy – The pragmatic way of European federalism
By Pier Virgilio DASTOLI, Rome, January 18, 2023 If the European Council was to accept the proposal, adopted by the European Parliament last May, to organize the tenth European elections on...