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…
The Civil Society Alliance for Global Citizenship Education has been launched this summer! A dynamic new coalition of civil society organisations working to embed the values of global citizenship education, solidarity, and sustainability at the heart of education systems across Europe and beyond. The Alliance brings together around 25 organisations from across Europe with a…
Competitiveness and defence drive the 2025 Spring Package – Social Agenda Still Takes a Back Seat The European Commission announced the European Semester Spring Package 2025 on 4th June. The Package contains, among others: the Spring Package Communication, giving an overview of its main objectives and rationale; the Employment guidelines, guiding national employment policies; the Country…
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…
Strengthening and Mainstreaming Just Transition Goals in the EU Budget What role for a socially just green transition in the next European Union budget? In July 2024, Ursula von der Leyen’s Political Guidelines promised to significantly increase funding for a just transition in the next long-term EU budget. However, subsequent communications by the European Commission,…
On 27 and 28 May, the EMPASY project partners gathered in Milan for their first in person meeting focused on enhancing the quality of youth work. This gathering was not only an opportunity to align on project goals, but also a chance to present the findings from the desk and field research conducted by ISMU…
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