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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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2017 survey about Civic Space in Europe

Civil Society Europe and CIVICUS have re-launched their annual survey to map out key trends on civic space in Europe over the last year. This survey covers the European Union, the European Economic...

ECF president nominated in the European Citizen’s Prize Chancellery

The Bureau of European Parliament unveiled the composition of the new European citizen’s prize Chancellery, in a meeting on 13 March 2017. Since 2008 the Parliament awards the European Citizen’s Prize...

Le président du FCE à la Chancellerie du Prix du citoyen européen

Le Bureau du Parlement européen dans sa réunion du 13 mars 2017 a arrêté la composition de la nouvelle chancellerie du prix du citoyen européen. Créé en 2008, le Prix du citoyen européen a pour...

Prix européen de la citoyenneté 2017 – appel à candidatures

Le Prix Européen de la Citoyenneté 2017 est le fruit d’une initiative conjointe entre le Forum Civique Européen et Volonteurope, deux réseaux européens qui ont pour objectif de promouvoir la...

European Citizenship Awards 2017 – Call for Nominations

The European Citizenship Awards 2017 are a joint initiative between the European Civic Forum and Volonteurope, two European networks which promote active citizenship and recognition of the importance...

Our Europe: Unity Democracy Solidarity

We are coming together to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome in the full knowledge that we must change Europe, to stop it from falling apart, to avoid a social and...

NOTRE EUROPE UNIE, DEMOCRATIQUE, SOLIDAIRE

À l’occasion du soixantième anniversaire de la signature du Traité de Rome, nous nous réunissons, conscients qu’il faut changer l’Europe, pour la sauver de la désintégration, du désastre social et de...

Solidarity in action against right-winged extremism: activist and philanthropic innovations from

SOLIDARNA was set up in 2015 as a strategic initiative of 55 Croatian human rights activists and civil society organisations, as it became clear that sustainability of human rights protection, the...

A Civic Academy for Democracy in Europe

European civil society representatives and academics met on 8-9 October 2016 in La Rochelle, France to discuss about “Democracy in Europe and the missing links”. Some 200 activists from citizens’...