The CSOs Convention for the Conference on the Future of Europe took part in the second CoFoE plenary in Strasbourg on 22-23 September. While plenary working groups kick-started with first discussions, citizens shared first insights from their panels and delegates from the youth event (that witnesses unacceptable Islamophobic attacks from far-right groups), the two days…
At an event held on Friday, 5 November organised by the EESC Diversity group in partnership with Civil Society Europe, about two hundred participants from civil society and EU institutions discussed about the role of CSOs in building the Future of Europe. Within his opening remarks, Jean-Marc Roirant, president of Civil Society Europe emphasised that…
Diversity Europe Group conference on the state of associations, organised in partnership with Civil Society Europe Civil society organisations respond to a wide variety of concerns and perform very important social, cultural, civic, recreational and economic functions. Through their various missions, they support excluded and marginalised groups, provide essential services and contribute to social cohesion and to safeguarding…
Civil Society Europe and the signatories of the Call for a Convention on the Future of Europe are inviting you to their online kick-off event, on Wednesday 3 February 2021, at 5:00 P.M. Please register below to receive the link to the virtual room. Due to a limited number of places, participants will be accepted…
Civil Society Europe, the European Coordination body which the ECF is a part of, is launching a Civil Society Convention on the future of Europe. The Conference on the Future of Europe is due to kick off soon. In addition to a decentralised exercise with events at local and national levels , it will also…
Civil Society- or NGO-Forums constitute a well-established way to shadow and influence the Presidencies of the Council of the EU from a civil society perspective. Initiated by the European Civic Forum, these events form a central place for exchange, debate, position finding and agenda setting as well as a political dialogue with the respective Presidencies.…
We are coming together to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome in the full knowledge that we must change Europe, to stop it from falling apart, to avoid a social and environmental catastrophe and to keep authoritarianism at bay. Our common heritage, built on victories and progress in the area of…
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 case and the raise of the concept of Illiberal Democracy, « labelled » by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Activizenship magazine was launched as an attempt to…
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 undermines fundamental rights and freedoms. This includes: limitations to the independence of the judiciary undermining the system of checks and balances and violation of the constitution, restrictions on the…
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 undermines fundamental rights and freedoms. This includes: limitations to the independence of the judiciary undermining the system of checks and balances and violation of the constitution, restrictions on the…