ECAS Highlight of the Week: Next on the Agenda: Empowering Citizens
No Pause on Citizens' Rights and Democracy: Bringing the EU to the Regional Level October 5th will mark the 18th…
The case for transnational referendums in the European Union
By Bruno Kaufmann, president of the Initiative and Referendum Institute, Europe’s Global Direct Democracy Think-Tank This article was originally published on…
ECAS Highlight of the Week: The bigger the scope of citizen rights is, the stronger the democracy is. What can the EU do?
Freedom of movement is not so free when European citizenship legislation is not implemented correctly. The challenges that EU citizens…
State of the Union Address 2020: A Union of Vitality Can Only Emerge through Active European Citizenship
The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) has been working for almost three decades to empower EU citizens in order to…
Joint CSO statement: 5 demands for an ambitious European Democracy Action Plan
This joint statement was coordinated by the European Partnership for Democracy. Democracies in Europe have been faced with numerous challenges…
Change of seasons: NEW(s) on the European Citizens’ Initiative
The summer holiday was hopefully a break from the whirlwind of events, a chance to reflect on what we have…
Diversifying policy debates at European level
By Jasmin Hiry, PhD researcher at the Department of Law at the University of Luxembourg This article was originally published…
European citizens’ initiative: Free sharing of protected works while compensating creators
By Marco Ciurcina, lawyer in Italy and one of the organisers of the European citizens' initiative 'Freedom to Share' This article…
ECAS News Flash: Upholding freedom of movement in a post-lockdown world | Towards a citizen-centric EU | DEMOS research on four types of populism
Welcome to the July edition of the ECAS Newsletter! In this issue, we address some of the recent challenges that resulted…
ECAS Highlight of the Week – Cast your vote for the ECAS Awards 2020
Earlier this month, we highlighted the launch of the ECAS Awards 2020, in search of "The most EU Mobile Citizen-Friendly…