For a Popular and Civic Ownership of Europe! We are a European network of 100+ NGOs, notably running the #CivicSpaceWatch Member of @EuCivilsociety.
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Powering #CivicPride. The European Civic Forum (ECF) is a transnational network that brings together over 100 associations and NGOs across 28 countries in Europe and is actively working to promote civic and popular ownership of Europe. Facing this growing civic disaffection across Europe, it is more critical than ever to foster citizens’ engagement for a collective project and the emergence of a European public space where the role and influence of civil society are fully recognized though the setting up of a genuine European civil dialogue.
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27/05/2021
📣 It’s that time of year again - nominations for Activizenship #6 are OPEN!
We are looking to showcase civic actors’ enabling actions (advocacy, campaigning, action, community organising) that have:
🌟had a positive impact on policies, legislation, enforcement practices (including through litigation and other forms of mobilisation)
and/or
🌟 brought about a transformative change to a community (e.g. by influencing narratives, bridging divided communities, building civic agency).
In particular, we are looking for stories of concrete achievements for civic space that have a European dimension.
❓ Dialogue between civil society and institutions: lost in translation?
Join this incredible group of leading academics and civil society actors for the next session of the European Civic Academy, which will take place on Wednesday 2nd June from 15:00 - 18:00.
❓ Dialogue between civil society and institutions: lost in translation?
Join this incredible group of leading academics and civil society actors for the next session of the European Civic Academy, which will take place on Wednesday 2nd June from 15:00 - 18:00.
📣 GERMANY: A solidarity approach to tackling the pandemic
Hear the stories of our #CivicPride award winners!
🇩🇪 In June, Unteilbar took to the streets in 10 cities across Germany to fight for a management of the crisis that leaves no one behind & a solidarity approach.
Would you like to work in a transnational network of associations and NGOs in Europe? Do you care about issues of civic space, citizens’ participation and democracy? Come and work with us!
👀 Find out more: https://bit.ly/3bopZN4
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Citizens For Europe Citizens Take Over Europe CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation Democracy International Gong
Dialogue between civil society and institutions: Lost in translation?
Registration for the next session of #CivicAcademy is now OPEN!
Join us for the next session of the European Civic Academy where we will discuss the topic of civil dialogue together with leading academics and civil society actors.
👉Check out the programme: https://bit.ly/3bAJB0P
👉 REGISTER here: forms.office.com/r/simrdY9f6F
SOLIDAR Fundacja na rzecz Collegium Polonicum
09/05/2021
🇪🇺 Happy #EuropeDay! Today we celebrate what we love most about Europe - European civil society in all its richness and diversity.
Together, we stand for a sustainable, inclusive and democratic Europe that puts citizens and their needs at the centre, because what is Europe without the power of its people? ✊
🇪🇺 Happy #EuropeDay! Today we celebrate what we love most about Europe - European civil society in all its richness and diversity.
Together, we stand for a sustainable, inclusive and democratic Europe that puts citizens and their needs at the centre, because what is Europe without the power of its people? ✊
05/05/2021
Our latest ECF newsletter is here!
Read about one of the leaders of the Polish Women's strike, Marta Lempart, facing over 70 trials for the organisation of peaceful protests, and other members of the ECF network impacted by criminalisation of #Right2Protest.
Read about one of the leaders of the Polish Women's strike, Marta Lempart, facing over 70 trials for the organisation of peaceful protests, and other members of the ECF network impacted by criminalisation of #Right2Protest.
🚨 Civic space is shrinking not only in countries deemed to be authoritarian regimes but also in established democracies.
Yesterday, Secretary General Alexandrina Najmowicz Rednic raised the alarm at the European Parliament LIBE Committee Monitoring Group on Fundamental Rights. Najmowicz gave concerning examples of shrinking civic space in Hungary, Poland, France, Slovenia and Greece based on the findings of #CivicSpaceWatch and called for:
👉 A comprehensive approach to rule of law, fundamental rights and democracy
👉 A strategy for civil society that identifies the tools and instruments at the disposal of the EU institutions to address restrictions to civic space
🚨 Civic space is shrinking not only in countries deemed to be authoritarian regimes but also in established democracies.
Yesterday, Secretary General Alexandrina Najmowicz Rednic raised the alarm at the European Parliament LIBE Committee Monitoring Group on Fundamental Rights. Najmowicz gave concerning examples of shrinking civic space in Hungary, Poland, France, Slovenia and Greece based on the findings of #CivicSpaceWatch and called for:
👉 A comprehensive approach to rule of law, fundamental rights and democracy
👉 A strategy for civil society that identifies the tools and instruments at the disposal of the EU institutions to address restrictions to civic space
☕️Got 5 mins? Catch up with some ECF news, featuring:
👉 Edito: Conference #FutureofEurope
👉 SecGen Alexandrina Najmowicz Rednic elected Co-chair of #CivilSocietyConvention
👉 Our contribution to European Commission #RuleofLaw consultation
👉 Key takeaways from the #CivicAcademy
The increase in turnout in the 2019 European elections, the adoption of the EU 7-year budget, including a recovery plan through common debt, the management of a European approach to vaccination, have not fundamentally changed citizens’ attitudes towards the institutions. This situation is reflecte...
🚨GREECE: Implementation of new registration rules leaves migration organisations in legal vacuum
Why are we concerned?
👉 Only 27 NGOs (of 200) have successfully joined the Registry, creating a hurdle for migration NGOs to deliver crucial services
👉Criticised internationally for not meeting EU standards
👉Transparency & privacy concerns
🧐 Read on #CivicSpaceWatch - https://bit.ly/3sJwnFv
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Common Ground Greek Forum of Refugees SolidarityNow European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) Choose Love
- By Dominika Spyratou, Common Ground, reported on 8 March 2021
🎥Follow the first session of the European #CivicAcademy - rebuilding trust in #Democracy
With SOLIDAR Fundacja na rzecz Collegium Polonicum & Civil Society Europe
24/03/2021
18/03/2021
📣 Stories from our #CivicPride award winners -
#2: @sedoac_serviciodomesticoact
👏 Domestic and care workers in #Spain are advocating for full and equal rights, and dignified working conditions for all.
Hear their story "⤵️
17/03/2021
👩🎓 Just 5 days left to register for the European Civic Academy!
We are delighted to confirm an incredible list of speakers, including leading academics and civil society actors from across Europe.
👉 Read the programme: https://bit.ly/2OKwku5
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SOLIDAR Donatella Della Porta Mladi plus Almamy Mam Kanouté Priscillia Ludosky Transnational Institute, TNI ARCI Sardegna Instytut Spraw Publicznych CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
👩🎓 Just 5 days left to register for the European Civic Academy!
We are delighted to confirm an incredible list of speakers, including leading academics and civil society actors from across Europe.
👉 Read the programme: https://bit.ly/2OKwku5
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SOLIDAR Donatella Della Porta Mladi plus Almamy Mam Kanouté Priscillia Ludosky Transnational Institute, TNI ARCI Sardegna Instytut Spraw Publicznych CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
As inequalities rise, we are witnessing #RuleofLaw backsliding in #EU
👉Our response to the European Commission public consultation on rule of law calls for a comprehensive approach to strengthen democracy, the rule of law, and civic space in Europe
👓 Read our full report here: bit.ly/3rE1emh
Including country contributions from: Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and Spain.
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Thank you for your contributions Bundesnetzwerk Bürgerschaftliches Engagement (BBE) CNVOS Common Ground Gong Ligue des droits de l'Homme Nyt Europa Novact Environmental Partnership Association Instytut Spraw Publicznych Òmnium Cultural!
Deterioration of the rule of law, democracy and civic space: there is a need for a comprehensive approach The deterioration of the rule of law develops in parallel with growing social disparities In the European Union, the rule of law (Etat de Droit, Rechtsstaat) refers to constitutional supremacy a...
08/03/2021
📢 REGISTRATION is now OPEN for the European Civic Academy!
We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by two inspirational women keynote speakers:
👉 Donatella Della Porta, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Director of the PhD program Political Science and Sociology, Director of Centre of Social Movements Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore
👉 Priscillia Ludosky, leading activist from Yellow Vests movement and member of Convention Climat, France.
📢 REGISTRATION is now OPEN for the European Civic Academy!
We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by two inspirational women keynote speakers:
👉 Donatella Della Porta, Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Director of the PhD program Political Science and Sociology, Director of Centre of Social Movements Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore
👉 Priscillia Ludosky, leading activist from Yellow Vests movement and member of Convention Climat, France.
🙌 We are so proud to see ECF Secretary General Alexandrina Najmowicz Rednic & Milosh Ristovski elected as Co-chairs of the Civil Society Convention on #FutureofEurope
This is an exciting opportunity to build a strong cross-sectoral convergence of civil society for a resilient and democratic #Europe
🙌 We are so proud to see ECF Secretary General Alexandrina Najmowicz Rednic & Milosh Ristovski elected as Co-chairs of the Civil Society Convention on #FutureofEurope
This is an exciting opportunity to build a strong cross-sectoral convergence of civil society for a resilient and democratic #Europe
📢Announcing stories - winners of #CivicPride awards!
#1: Citizens' protests #Slovenia 🇸🇮
👉For over 20 consecutive weeks, people took to the streets to protest the right-wing government, corruption, growing social inequalities
🚲Mobilisations included pandemic-friendly protests on bikes!
Hear their story⤵️
Mladi plus Inštitut 8. marec SLOGA, platforma NVO za razvoj, globalno učenje in humanitarno pomoč Mirovni inštitut Focus - društvo za sonaraven razvoj CNVOS
26/02/2021
📣Our February newsletter is out!
👉Edito: What happens in Poland does not stay in Poland
👉Civil Society Convention #FutureofEurope
👉Save the date: European Civic Academy
👉 #CivicSpaceWatch in 🇭🇺🇫🇷🇨🇾
👉 News from members & 🇪🇺 institutions
👉Edito: What happens in Poland does not stay in Poland
👉Civil Society Convention #FutureofEurope
👉Save the date: European Civic Academy
👉 #CivicSpaceWatch in 🇭🇺🇫🇷🇨🇾
👉 News from members & 🇪🇺 institutions
⚖️The #COVID19 pandemic is seriously shaking our lives, societies, economies and democracies. If inequalities weren't evident enough before, they are even more so now.
📢Tomorrow we welcome experts #AndreaFumagalli,
Benoît Hamon for our 2nd Monthly Talk with members on #UniversalBasicIncome.
⚖️The #COVID19 pandemic is seriously shaking our lives, societies, economies and democracies. If inequalities weren't evident enough before, they are even more so now.
📢Tomorrow we welcome experts #AndreaFumagalli,
Benoît Hamon for our 2nd Monthly Talk with members on #UniversalBasicIncome.
💡Poland in the Spotlight:
As pressures on anti-abortion protesters soar, we call for #SolidarityWithPolishWomen and those protesting attacks to rights and freedoms #StrajkKobiet⚡️
Also:
🚨 We report on civic space developments across Europe, and;
👉 Remind you to contribute to the stakeholder consultation on the #EU Commission Rule of Law report.
On 22 October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Court ruled for a near-total ban on abortion. Since then, women and men in the streets have protested the restrictions of fundamental rights and backsliding of the rule of law that this sentence exemplifies. The protesters have been met with high fines...
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The European Civic Forum (ECF) is a transnational network that brings together over 100 associations and NGOs across 27 countries in Europe, actively working on issues such as citizenship education, defence of Human Rights and the advocacy of Democracy.
Our vision of citizenship
Built essentially around an economic dimension, the European project lacks of the pillars enshrined in the Treaties – Solidarity and Democracy – to be able to overcome the wide gap between citizens and European institutions. Associations and NGOs play a crucial role in this civic ownership. Associations provide an ideal environment for debate and the formulation of projects which respond to citizens’ aspirations. They are fulfilling an important function, strengthening the ties in a community life, promoting inclusion and social innovation. Associations also are spokespersons of citizens’ aspirations for equality, solidarity and democracy.
Thus, they are a key factor in building, assisting and monitoring public policies, but they also make sure that decisions made by institutions reflect as much as possible citizens’ concerns. An associative participation recognised by institutions at the European level can bring back enthusiasm for building a Europe of social justice, a Europe ensuring an access to education and culture for all, which would be a leading example in the defence of Human Rights and of cultural diversity. This vision of the relations between citizens, associations and institutions is precisely at the core of European Civic Forum’s action, since its creation in 2005.
Le 20 février prochain, The Good Lobby propose une demi-journée à Paris à destination des associations et ONGs qui souhaitent se former au plaidoyer.
La première partie de la matinée, « the Citizen Lobbying toolkit », sera consacrée aux outils utiles pour mettre en œuvre une stratégie et des campagnes de plaidoyer.
La deuxième partie de l’atelier, « How to file a Freedom of Information request », sera quant à elle dédiée au droit d’accès à l’information et vous permettra d’apprendre à rédiger une demande d’accès à l’information, qui permet à n’importe quelle organisation de la société civile d’interagir avec les institutions nationales ou européennes.
L’atelier est gratuit pour les associations souhaitant y participer !
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