Featured news
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…...
Read More
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’...
5 years of Okruzenje TV programme, winner of the 2016 European Citizenship Awards
The 5th anniversary of Okruženje took place in a room crowded with journalists and an unanimous appreciation of the sole regional TV programme: this is a project that must continue. Until...
Towards an EU Strategy to Promote Civic Space ?
Original article from Civil Society Europe On 16th November, several members of the European Parliament working on civil liberties, human rights and development cooperation and representatives of...
Une académie civique sur la démocratie en Europe
Les 8 et 9 octobre 2016 le monde associatif européen avec des experts du champ académique s’est retrouvé à La Rochelle en France pour discuter de la “Démocratie en Europe et des maillons manquants”...
Join us for the first European Civic Academy
The first European Civic Academy (8-9 October, la Rochelle, France) will look into the complex questions raised by citizens’ disenchantment, practice, and expectation with regard to democracy and in...