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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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Discussion on the 10 lessons: “Too many citizens felt in their flesh the need to come up with a
On 9th of May 45 organisations and thousands of citizens across Europe called for online and offline events on a day-long kick off, all across Europe. The ECF held a discussion on the Future and...
How citizens & NGOs organised solidarity amid Covid-19
The unprecendented crisis that hit the whole world in the last months revealed how much solidarity means to us. The upheaval of our way of life, in our consumption patterns also urged many of us to...
ECF contribution to the Rule of Law consultation
The European Commission opened a stakeholder consultation to feed into the Annual Rule of Law Report. The European Civic Forum took this opportunity to highlight why the deterioration of the rule of...
Citizens Take Over Europe
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS KICK OFF A CITIZENS’ CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE 27 April 2020 – This year’s Europe Day, the 9th of May, is marked by the 70th anniversary of the...
For a Europe that cares for all – during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
#DEMOCRACY / #INCLUSION / #JUSTICE / #SOLIDARITY / #SUSTAINABILITY The COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrating all too well that unequal societies go hand-in-hand with human suffering, fragile economies...
THE FUTURE MUST BE DIFFERENT FROM THE PAST
Humanity is going through an unprecedented crisis, with a lot of suffering, sacrifice, pain and drastic changes in our daily…...
Open Letter to Ms Von der Leyen, Ms Jourova and Mr Reynders: CSOs must be able to act in response
The present statement is an initiative taken by national platforms of civil society organisations during a working group meeting hosted by the European Civic Forum (ECF)...
At a distance, united as never before
Version française ci-dessousDear members, We are all living an unexpected and astonishing situation The whole planet faces the same emergency, and Europe has become, after China, the centre of the...
Follow live the COE seminar on the World NGO day
The Conference of INGOs is celebrating World NGO Day with the holding of a seminar in Brussels on 28 February entitled “From the Past to the Future : A Living Civic Space for a Living...