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

News

Activizenship #2 is out !

The second issue of Activizenship has just been released ! In the continuity of the recent developments about fundamental rights and civic space in Europe, this second number focuses on the Hungarian...

A state of democracy: towards citizen rights protection in the EU

In the past five years people across the EU have seen large scale attacks on social and cultural rights, discrimination, attacks and violence against minorities, mass surveillance and challenges to...

Citizen Rights report

The Citizen Rights toolkit has been produced by the European Civic Forum and European Alternatives as part of the Citi-Rights project. The report addresses recommendations and inputs to European...

Citizen Rights report

The Citizen Rights toolkit has been produced by the European Civic Forum and European Alternatives as part of the Citi-Rights project. The report addresses recommendations and inputs to European...

Yves Sintomer : “La France peut évoluer vers un régime autoritaire”

Le Forum Civique Européen, dans sa volonté de protéger et de défendre l'espace civique, a tenu à partager un article consacré à la dérive autoritaire rencontrée dans plusieurs pays européens, dans une...

The European Year of Citizens Alliance

ECF action for the creation and the animation of the European Year of Citizens Alliance (EYCA), one of the most important coordination of organised civil society at the European level (62 European...

Call for EU action to safeguard Democracy and fundamental rights

We stand with the people of Poland who marched this week-end in defence of democracy and European values. We are concerned that adopted and proposed legislation of the Polish government...