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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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PRIX DE LA CITOYENNETE DEMOCRATIQUE EUROPEENNE Et les nominés sont …
Le Forum Civique Européen – réseau transnational de plus de 100 associations membres – a lancé en 2014 le Prix Européen de la Citoyenneté Démocratique, qui récompense des initiatives collectives et...
European democratic citizenship Awards: Laureates announced
The European Civic Forum launched the European Democratic Citizenship Award in 2014, with the aim to promote citizens’ engagement, and reward outstanding initiatives and civic actors whose day-to-day...
Civil Society Europe: appel aux responsables de l’Union Européenne pour l’accueil desé
L’Histoire n’a pas épargné l’Europe de conflits, de guerres et de famines et dans le passé, ancien comme récent, de très nombreux habitants ont dû fuir à la recherche d’une sécurité. Aujourd’hui, des...
Civil Society Europe: Call to EU leaders for refugees welcome
Europe is no stranger to conflict, war and famine and in the recent and distant past huge numbers of its inhabitants have had to flee their homes seeking safety. Today, hundreds of thousands of people...
The European Democratic Citizenship Awards are back
In view of its tenth anniversary in 2015, the European Civic Forum launched the European Democratic Citizenship Awards, aimed at promoting citizens’ engagement. The 2015 edition will take place in the...
Le Prix de la Citoyenneté Démocratique Européenne est de retour
Le Forum Civique Européen – réseau transnational de plus de 100 associations membres – a lancé en 2014 le Prix Européen de la Citoyenneté Démocratique, qui récompense des initiatives...
With Greece, we say YES to democracy and social justice!
During the last decade, popular trust in the European project is going records low, alongside decrease in living standards and raising poverty for large swaths of the population. The institutional...
Democracy at risk in Portugal
We now count five years of austerity, which the Portuguese population had to survive. Today, we therefore live a violent social regression, the largest in the history of our young democracy: 28% of...
Do the Gov’t and High Administrative Court understand the right of access to information?
After the High Administrative Court had allowed the Croatian Government to continue hiding the amount that was paid to American law firm Patton Boggs LLP for the defense of Ante Gotovina and Mladen...