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  • OPEN CALL FOR YOUNG ACTIVISTS | YMCA 2025

    Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator APPLY NOW! The crises of our time are transnational. Climate change knows no borders, inequality and precarity affect all societies, and the consequences can feel overwhelming. Anxiety, powerlessness, and even despair can prevent us from…

    Aug 28, 2025

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  • European Alternatives Supports Collective Call to End EU’s War on Migrants

    European Alternatives proudly joins 186 organisations across Europe in supporting the urgent call to end the European Union’s violent migration policies and to defend the rights, dignity, and freedom of all people on the move. We stand in solidarity with migrant-led organisations and allies…

    Jun 20, 2025

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  • Articles about Gaza

    A curated collection of articles highlighting global solidarity with Palestine

    Jun 5, 2025

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  • Pride in LGBTQI+, Pride in Diversity, Pride in Democracy

    STATEMENT The Hungarian government of Victor Orban has passed laws and constitutional amendments that attempt to ban public events by LGBTQI+ people, including Budapest Pride, scheduled for the 28th June this year. The constitutional amendment authorises the use of surveillance…

    May 15, 2025

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  • Democracy is a collective act of care

    Together, we rise. Together, we fight. Together, we care. Event at Funkhaus, Argentinierstraße 30A, 1040 Wien, Austria  – 23 May 2025 Registration form  Overview ‘Democracy as a collective act of care’ is a complementary event to the Democratic Odyssey’s Vienna…

    May 2, 2025

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  • Mentoring young activists-to-be: MYCELIA mentors are there for you

    The second round of the MYCELIA mentorship programme (Mentoring Youth for Collective Engagement in Learning, Interaction, and Activism) of the Critical ChangeLab project is launched – find out more here and apply before September 15. Does the world around you…

    Apr 2, 2025

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  • Islamophobic, anti-migrant, racist violence must be surmounted by community organising and solidarity networks

    It is completely unacceptable that for over a week people seeking asylum, Muslim people and other racialized communities, including Roma, in the UK have been living with far-right hatred and immediate violence. Graves have been desecrated, numerous people have been…

    Aug 6, 2024

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  • Movement Learning Catalyst: building a learning community across struggles and places. 

    The Movement Learning Catalyst has great news for you. We are about to share a new Learner’s Guide and launch a new action-learning platform that aims to nurture the interconnected movements, realities and responsive strategies needed to challenge systems of…

    Apr 30, 2024

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  • Project

    Citizens’ Action for Democracy – CitiDem

    Every citizen should be given the means to engage, but many have not had the experience, resources, or know-how, to properly become part of the discussion. This is why we want to build the knowledge, tools, and support, together with citizens…

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  • Democratic Odyssey: Dissemination Event, July 8th, 2025

    Following our pilot assemblies in Athens, Florence, and Vienna, and the final presentation of our Citizens’ Charter, we are excited to invite you to our upcoming Dissemination Event on July 8th, 2025, from 18:00 to 19:00 CEST, online. This session…

    Jul 1, 2025

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  • Journal

    The Deserter

    by Giuliano Logos Il DisertoreNel silenzio — e dunque nella complicità — di una parte ancora troppo ampia dell’informazione italiana e internazionale, il genocidio del popolo palestinese continua a essere perpetrato da Israele. Le voci dissidenti – dall’attivismo all’arte, dagli…

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  • Project

    Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator

    The Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator is part of European Alternatives’ School of Transnational Organizing and offers European youth and community leaders a space to organise and develop actions to advance struggles for solidarity, democracy and climate justice.

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  • “If you want to experience the future of Europe now, look no further than European alternatives”

    Engin Isin

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    Next Time

    How are the public policy issues that mobilise young people today dealt with at European level? This podcast series is designed as an educational tool to help you understand today’s big topics in the context of the European elections. The…

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  • Journal

    Palestine and Italy, between double talk and impotence

    By Gianluca Solera, advisory board member Years ago, a Palestinian writer, we were in Ramallah, told me that every time Israel comes with good news, you have to worry about the bad news hidden behind it. She had given me…

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  • Ceasefire Now! Open call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza strip and Israel.

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  • Journal

    Dirty Work

    by Gianluca Solera “Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us”. When the German Chancellor stated it during the last G7, held in mid-June, he was proud of himself and proud of being a pro-Israel supporter whatever it…

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  • Event

    Fluctuations 2025 (Strasbourg)

    22 August – 24 August 2025 Fluctuations is coming to Strasbourg at the iconic Phare Citadelle venue. The venue will be expanded for the festival, with the two halls used as music stages, as well as two stages for roundtable…

    Aug 22, 2025 at 12:00pm - 01:00am

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  • Event

    Fluctuations 2025 (Budapest)

    Fluctuations is coming to Budapest for a one-day celebration of rivers, resistance and rhythms with an Assembly of the Danube in the cultural venue Auróra, organised by Subjective Values Foundation.

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    Fluctuations 2025 (Paris)

    19 September – 21 September 2025 Fluctuations is coming to Paris from September 19 to 21 at La Javelle — Bercy Encore, a community space in the 12th arrondissement and a true urban laboratory that foreshadows the future uses of…

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  • People’s Assembly for Democracy and Freedom, Budapest 28th June

    Join us in solidarity: Pride in LGBTQI+, Pride in Diversity, Pride in Democracy. European Alternatives, in collaboration with EUMANS, invites citizens, activists, policy-makers, and institutions to a day of democratic engagement in Budapest on 28 June 2025, at Loffice, Paulay…

    Jun 23, 2025

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