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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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Conference – Improving European youngsters’ employability in the audiovisual sector and their
How can audiovisual media become a driver of employment and engagement for young Europeans? On the 4th of December 2025, Pour la Solidarité invites you to explore the connections between creativity...
BCSDN Research Maps Alarming Contraction of Donor Support and Threats to Civic Space in the
The Indispensable Lifeline is Fraying: Civil Society at a Crossroads Civil society in the Western Balkans (WB) is currently at a critical juncture. While independent organizations remain vital actors...
European Movement Italy: Italy, Rule of law and the primacy of European law – an act of
On November 21, 2025, the European Commission announced that it had opened infringement proceedings against the government led by Robert Fico for the constitutional amendments adopted on September 26...
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...