On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumatising, and rights-violating measures premised on an imperative of increasing deportation rates. Instead of focusing on protection, housing, healthcare and education, the Regulation is premised on…
SOLIDAR webinar on the Affordable Housing Plan – the future of housing must be socially just and sustainable SOLIDAR opened the very hot month of July with a webinar on an equally hot topic for the European Union: affordable housing. The webinar, titled “Shaping a Socially Just and Sustainable European Affordable Housing Plan”, took…
In 2010, the Lifelong Learning Platform and the European Youth Forum set up a stakeholders’ coalition related to the adoption of a new EU programme in the field of education and youth for the period 2013-2020. In a joint coalition, youth and education sectors will have more chances to have an advocacy impact in the…
Civil Society Alliance for Global Citizenship Education Who are we? The Civil Society Alliance for Global Citizenship Education brings together ca. 25 civil society organisations (CSOs) across Europe that are dedicated to advancing Global Citizenship Education (GCE). Through campaigning, advocacy, awareness-raising, capacity building, and the development of learning materials, our members work to promote GCE…
The EU’s recent proposals in the area of migration and asylum risk seriously undermining people’s access to fair and full asylum procedures in Europe. The European Commission’s recent initiatives appear to be interconnected components of a broader strategy to externalise the bloc’s migration management – these include its proposed revision to EU return or deportation…
x On 25 June 2025, the Annual General Assembly (AGA) of SOLIDAR and SOLIDAR Foundation took place in Brussels. We gathered our members and allies to take important decisions, exchange about our shared challenges and connect. The meeting was kicked off with introductions by Mikael Leyi, SOLIDAR Secretary General, Salima Chitalia, Project Manager at Pour…
What more needs to happen before the EU acts with determination and force? Gaza has been turned into dust. The last hospital functioning in the North of Gaza was forced to close. On 2nd June, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) killed 31 Palestinians that were walking to an aid site to collect food. 500,000 people…
From 9th to 11th April, delegations of SOLIDAR and SOLIDAR Foundation (SOLIDAR) and their members were happy to visit School With Class Foundation and Konsorcjum Migracyjne in Warsaw, Poland. The two-days journey focused on encouraging newcomer participation in civic and political life to strengthen social inclusion. The programme started with a Social Affairs and Education…
The CELAC-EU Summit: which alternatives for a broken economic system? The fourth Summit of the European Union’s (EU) member states and the 33 countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) has recently been announced to take place in Santa Marta, Colombia on 9-10 November 2025. Key priorities on the agenda will be trade…
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