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ECAS Signs Letter to EU Leaders to Encourage EU Mobile Citizens to Vote in Local Elections
Yesterday, ECAS and the Migration Policy Group (MPG) have jointly submitted a letter to EU leaders Presidents Jean-Claude Juncker, Luca Jahier, Antonio Tajani, and Karl-Heinz Lambertz encouraging them to help raise awareness of the municipal elections in October 2018, and encourage…
Citizens Panel Forms First Online Public Consultation
For the first time in EU history a group of European citizens from 27 Member States were invited to form the European Citizens' Panel on the Future of Europe. The purpose of this panel was to co-create an online public…
ECAS Advocates for More Transparency of EU Trilogues at the Advocate Europe Challenge Camp
ECAS presented a project idea aimed at making EU Trilogues more transparent and accessible to citizens by encouraging civic engagement at the Idea Challenge Camp, held in Kyiv. Having been shortlisted out of 472 applicants, ECAS participated at the Advocate…
Pension, entry and residence rights are key concerns in the 2017 Annual Trends Report
Topics related to social security rights continued to be the most problematic for EU citizens. Enquiries related to residence rights increased by 3.4% compared to 2016. These largely concerned non-EU family members who are still experiencing difficulties when moving to…
Obstacles to Entry and Residence Rights Still a Burden to EU Mobile Citizens
ECAS’ latest report entitled “Freedom of Movement in the EU: A Look Behind The Curtain” looks at the difficulties EU citizens and their family members face with regard to entry and residence rights in another EU country. Freedom of movement…
EU Rights in the Spotlight – March 2018
The EU Rights in the Spotlight section for this month features three ECJ rulings affecting the right of national courts to disregard social security certificates obtained fraudulently, the compensation for delays in the case of connecting flights and public access…
ECAS is Among the Finalists For Advocate Europe Challenge!
We are delighted to announce that out of 472 proposals our project "Citizens’ Call for Transparent Trilogues: Let’s build a more Democratic EU!" submitted by ECAS and VoteWatch Europe has been shortlisted for the Advocate Europe Challenge Camp! ECAS and 30 other shortlisted…
ECAS Activities of 2017: A Review
The harder the challenge, the stronger the outcome Over the past year political turmoil has posed a great deal of uncertainty not to mention significant challenges for the issue of citizens’ rights throughout Europe. Despite these crisis-driven times the length…
Event Report – Digital Democracy Day 2018
On 27 February 2018, ECAS held its fourth annual Digital Democracy Day - Crowdsourcing EU Legislation: Taking Decisions With EU Citizens and Not For Them! Digital Democracy Day 2018 was organized in the framework of the EUCROWD project, under the Europe for…
Your Europe Advice Facebook Chat reaches 1.2 Million People
On 26 February, legal experts from the Your Europe Advice service, which ECAS manages on behalf of the European Commission, took part in a Facebook chat on setting up a business in another EU country. Over 2300 users followed the…
