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…
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…
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…
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…
On 13th May 2025, SOLIDAR Foundation organised a high-level policy roundtable at the European Parliament under the title “Breaking Barriers: Global Citizenship Education (GCE) for Inclusive Participation”. This event gathered over 30 in-person and online participants, including MEP Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, representatives from the European Commission, civil society organisations, and education practitioners to reflect on the…
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