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EU Rights Clinic challenges France’s systematic failure to comply with EU residence formalities
In a complaint submitted this week to the European Commission, the EU Rights Clinic has challenged France’s breach of EU law in its duty to issue residence documents to EU citizens. The complaint points to the systematic failure of French…
“The situation of citizens’ rights in Europe has deteriorated since 2015” – said our Director in recent interview
Executive Director at ECAS, Assya Kavrakova was interviewed by Europe Street News on the state of EU citizenship, current threats to freedom of movement, and the relationship between EU citizenship and free movement. Ms. Kavrakova stated "Free movement, or the…
“State of the Union Citizens’ Rights: Towards the European Elections 2019!” – ECAS’ Annual Conference, and Launch of the YouVoteEU platform! #SOTUECAS18
The conference explored current challenges to freedom of movement and civic engagement, and analysed grassroots actions of civic campaigning and engagement, in view of the 2019 European Elections. On Tuesday 25 September, ECAS held the first edition of its "State…
EU Rights in the Spotlight – from July to September 2018
This EU Rights in the Spotlight section features three ECJ judgments affecting entry and residence facilitation for non-EU partners, social security schemes for posted workers and European arrest warrants. Where an EU citizen returns to his Member State of origin,…
Press Release – European Elections 2019: Your Vote Matters and This is How it Will!
A multi-lingual platform for democratic participation in the 2019 elections, co-funded by the European Commission, is launched at ECAS’ State of the Union Citizens’ Rights conference. Tomorrow, Tuesday 25th of September, at ECAS’ State of the Union Citizens’ Rights event 2018,…
Once again Sweden fails to comply with EU regulations, says EU Rights Clinic.
The EU Rights Clinic has again referred Sweden to the European Commission for its failure to abide by EU law. In a second complaint to be filed against Sweden in under a year, this case relates to the failure of…
ECAS launches its own crowdsourcing platform!
We at ECAS are proud to announce that we have launched our very own crowdsourcing platform! Its activities will be aimed at crowdsourcing citizens' opinions on a number of different subjects by issuing questionnaires. The first questionnaire is launched under…
EU Rights in the Spotlight – July 2018
This EU Rights in the Spotlight section features three ECJ judgments affecting freedom of residence for EU citizens and their spouses of the same sex, change of gender and retirement pension, and entry and residence facilitation for non-EU partners. The…
Our Director’s Participation at “Post-Brexit Europe: What’s Next for Youth Mobility?”
Last month, the event entitled Post-Brexit Europe: What's Next for Youth Mobility? hosted by Volonteurope and Volunteering Matters gathered experts, campaigners and volunteers actively working to ensure that the rights of young people are protected after Brexit negotiations. As a speaker on…
EU Rights Clinic Petition for More Citizens’ Rights Protection Features in Media Outlets
On 9 July the EU Rights Clinic, ECAS and 80 signatories submitted a petition calling the European Parliament to immediate action, to address specific gaps and omissions still featuring in the draft Withdrawal Agreement, concerning the protection of some categories…