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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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Joint civil society letter calling for boycott of NGO scrutiny working group
This letter was originally published by Transparency International EU. Dear Presidents, dear Vice-Presidents, As organisations dedicated to protecting the crucial role civil society plays in...
Ligue de l’enseignement: End of the Just4All project
Summary: The final roundtable discussion of the Just4All project on European policies was held in Brussels on September 24, 2025. It concluded with the development of a roadmap for sustainable and...
Joint letter: The EU must uphold hard-won protections for digital human rights
We 127 civil society organisations, trade unions and defenders of the public interest write to emphasise our serious alarm at the forthcoming EU Digital Omnibus proposals, part of a wide deregulation...
European Commission publishes long-awaited Civil Society Strategy, in positive step forward
Brussels, 12 November 2025 — The European Commission has today published its Civil Society Strategy, which aims to support, protect, and empower civil society organisations and activists. The...
Why the EU must invest in AgoraEU
Welcome to the latest ECF Newsletter! In this edition: why the EU must invest in the proposed AgoraEU programme, how to make the Civil Society Strategy a success,…...
European Movement Italy: How and why to plan the future of European finances
In most countries around the world, a financial planning tool has been in place for over forty years in the form of multi-year budgets which, according to Richard Musgrave's theoretical model for...
Gong’s Recommendations: How to Protect Civil Society from Attacks and Disinformation Campaigns
Gong presented to Croatia’s civil society its analysis of attacks on civil society organizations during the 2025 local election campaign. Following the analysis of these attacks and the consequences...
NEW BRIEFING: Strengthening democracy in times of crisis – Why the EU must invest in AgoraEU.
Europe faces a number of crises and challenges from climate change to growing precarity and inequality, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and…...
Repression on protests in solidarity with Flotilla and Palestinian people: NGOs demand EU Council
Brussels, 16 October 2025 — A coalition of NGOs, including the European Civic Forum, and the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) have condemned the violent…...