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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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The invisible guardians of European dignity (POLITICO OP-ED)
This article was originally published on Poltico.eu ‘Civic actors are not phantoms, we exist, we are a resource for Europe. We call on institutions to recognize and support the work we do and the...
Join the Civil Society Convention on the Future of Europe
Civil Society Europe, the European Coordination body which the ECF is a part of, is launching a Civil Society Convention on the future of Europe. The Conference on the Future of Europe is due to kick...
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...
Civic Space Watch report 2020
Stories from the lockdown is out!
2020 has been characterised by the COVID-19 health emergency that produced consequences on our societies, economies and democracies that are unprecedented in Europe in times of peace. We have changed...
Drifts towards authoritarianism across Europe alert institutions and NGOs
Representatives of the EU institutions and civil society have raised concerns about recent attacks on the right to protest On 3 December 2020, the European Civic Forum, together with the Spanish...
Democracy International – Europe 2.0: Your future, your turn to design it!
Tuesday is Jam Day! Within the framework of the project European Public Sphere (https://www.publicsphere.eu) Democracy International is currently hosting the online discussion series ‘Europe 2.0’ for...
Ökotárs Foundation – Step in the wrong direction: merging the Equal Treatment Authority
Merging the Equal Treatment Authority under the Ombudsman’s Office jeopardizes the assertion of the principle of equal treatment. While in the past the Authority has often acted in defence of...
European House: European dimension in practice
Europa Platform Hungary, an open formation of non-governmental organisations and citizens in Hungary initiated and coordinated by European House Budapest was formed on Europe Day 2020. The Platform...
The European Civic Forum warns about rapid deterioration
of civic space and the rule of law in
French version below Paris, Brussels, 1st December 2020 The European Civic Forum welcomes the mass mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of people that took place on 28 and 29 November in 70 cities...