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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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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...

Si apre a Tunisi con un grande corteo il Forum Sociale Mondiale

«Anche il cielo protesta» dice una donna tunisina fradicia nel corteo. È venuto giù il diluvio universale, sulla marcia di apertura del Forum Sociale Mondiale di Tunisi. Il corteo è diventato un fiume...

ACTIVIZENSHIP : prendre la mesure des changements sociétaux au service du collectif

intervenir par une réflexion critique sur les paradigmes sociaux, culturels, économiques Pour alimenter les débats dans l’espace public, le FCE cherche à intervenir par une réflexion critique sur les...

Civil Society Europe : être en pôle position pour le changement

Les principaux réseaux européens d’associations se sont réunis pour créer Civil Society Europe, un espace permanent d’échanges horizontaux et une voix forte pour un changement de paradigme, afin de...

Press Conference Civil Society Europe

On 3rd February 2015, major European networks of associations got together for a press conference at the EU Parliament in Brussels, joining forces to create Civil Society Europe. This new platform...

TTIP Update

To pass or not pass? To pass or not pass? That is the great question hanging over the Transatlatic Trade Agreements (TTIP), between the EU and the USA on the one hand, and the already agreed yet...

Migration

In February, tragedies in the Mediterranean have once again called civil society and institutions to find a solution to the increasing number of migrants risking their life crossing the sea in search...

2015 : EUROPEAN YEAR FOR DEVELOPMENT

Decided by Parliament Resolution on 2nd April 2014, under the motto “Our world, our dignity, our future” (article 1), the objectives of the year, as provided in article 2 of the Resolution, will be «...