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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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ECF express condolences after the passing of David Sassoli, president of the European Parliament

It is with great sorrow that we learned the passing of European Parliament President David Sassoli today. We sincerely regret the loss of a political figure who was always supportive of civil society...

FROM THE CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS TO THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION

The Ampel Program is an important step in the way of a more democratic and resilient Union. It is an important step because it has broken the taboo of the reform of the treaties. It is an important...
Calling for a loud and strong civic voice in 2022

Looking back at another year of pandemic

At the early stage of this global crisis, we felt the pandemic was opening up, at great cost, deep fault lines in the dominant narrative about our societies, and that most people were asking (perhaps...

Statement on the situation of the USPR and undocumented people

A EUROPEAN CALL FOR REGULARISATION AND DIGNITY (French version below)   We, civic actors from across Europe and Members of the European Parliament are calling on the Belgian government to meet...

APPEAL OF A THOUSAND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ITALY, CROATIA, SERBIA, SLOVENIA, TO PARLIAMENT AND THE

In the days when Minister Lamorgese, taking advantage of the European visibility offered by the signing of a protocol on humanitarian corridors for Afghans, reminds the Union and the governments that...

Belgrade 2041: Back to the Future

The Ministry of Space presents the film Belgrade 2041: Back to the Future. The reason for making this movie is the development of the General Urban Plan of Belgrade for the period from 2021 to 2041...

Vaccines for all, Refugees Football Club: the latest news from
the Greek Forum of Refugees

Vaccines for all: INTERSOS Hellas, the Greek Forum of Refugees and the Greek Forum of Migrants aim with this information campaign (1) to ensure that communities and individuals, migrants and refugees...

CSOs Convention at the Conference on the Future of Europe Plenary

The CSOs Convention for the Conference on the Future of Europe took part in the second CoFoE plenary in Strasbourg on 22-23 September. While plenary working groups kick-started with first discussions...
EESC event on Civil Society in Europe

Larger involvement of CSOs is needed in CoFoE, says ECF at EESC event

At an event held on Friday, 5 November organised by the EESC Diversity group in partnership with Civil Society Europe, about two hundred participants from civil society and EU institutions discussed...