‘Rebuild Ukraine’ : A joint statement to the European Commission

European Commission must guarantee a meaningful role for civil society in ‘RebuildUkraine’   In May 2022, the platform “RebuildUkraine,” developed for the reconstruction of Ukraine, was announced by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. As civil society organisations, we applaud the formation of ‘RebuildUkraine.’ However, we are concerned about the absence of…

4th Conference on the Future of Europe Plenary

On March 11th and 12th, 2022, delegates from the Convention for the Conference on the Future of Europe (COFOE) gathered in Strasbourg for the COFOE Plenary. They were made up of the leaders of our thematic clusters, Elisa Gambardella (Social Europe), Gabriella Civico (Our European Life), Assya Kravakova (Digital Transformation), and Antonella Valmorbida (European Democracy).…

Calling for a Civil Society Strategy for the EU

On the 5th of November 2021, the Diversity Europe Group – EESC (European Economic and Social Committee) in coordination with Civil Society Europe (CSE) and with the support of the EESC’s Liaison Group and Associational Life Category, and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) successfully organized a Conference to examine and discuss the state of civil society organizations…

Contribute to the Civil Society Convention Cluster Consultations!

Do you want to contribute to the Conference on the Future of Europe? Do you belong to a civil society organization in Europe that operates either at the local or national level?  The Civil Society Convention, led by Civil Society Europe will now take the Convention’s work to a more local level, involving grassroots constituencies in the deliberation and…

Civil society must be part of the agenda setting of the Conference on the Future of Europe

We call on the co-chairs of the EU institutions to include the Civil Society Convention in the composition of the Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe by the next meeting of the Executive Board on 7 April. The Executive Board of the Conference on the Future of Europe in charge of steering…

The Civil Society Convention on the Future of Europe is ready to work

Today the Civil Society Convention on the Future of Europe initiated by Civil Society Europe through a joint declaration, currently endorsed by 72 organisations active at pan European level, had its first meeting.. The Civil Society Convention on the Conference of Europe was initiated to create a link between civil society organisations and the institutional…