For a refoundation of Europe from the margins – STATEMENT

Across Europe and beyond, movements resisting authoritarianism, imperialism, patriarchy, ecological destruction and political repression are confronting an escalating wave of violence, exclusion and democratic rollback.

In this decisive moment, European Alternatives reaffirms its commitment to building a flourishing future beyond the nation-state.

Over the course of 2026, European Alternatives will provide platforms and spaces throughout Europe for actors from these struggles, together with migrant and BIPOC-led, Roma, trans-feminist, social and ecological movements. By bringing these forces into dialogue and collaboration, we seek to strengthen transnational solidarities and contribute to democratic, social and ecological transformation grounded in international human rights law.

European Alternatives supports the struggle of all people fighting against authoritarianism, imperialism, patriarchy, aggression and extractivism and the supremacy of international human rights law.  We stand for a democratic refoundation of Europe beyond the nation state. 

We understand this moment as a clash between collapsing forms of nations, and transnational and planetary forces forging new democratic futures under conditions of ecological breakdown and global interdependence.

This struggle is more acute than at any point over Europe’s post second world-war history, and violent repression of movements enacting alternatives to a murderous and ecocidal status-quo is carried out across the territory and at its borders. This repression ranges from restriction of civic space, to police violence, to war and attempted extermination. 

In this context, European Alternatives:

• continues to stand in solidarity with people in Ukraine against Russian aggression, calls for a rapid and just peace and democratic and social reconstruction;
• is alarmed that the announced ceasefire in Gaza is not being observed by Israel, deplores settler violence in the Westbank and calls on the European Union to activate sanctions and suspensions of trade agreements in respect of international law, and to provide humanitarian aid to Palestinians;
• stands in solidarity with the protestors of Georgia against the stolen elections, calls on movements, businesses, and governments across Europe to not recognize the dictatorship of Georgian Dream;
• protests against the arrest of political opponents of Erdogan in Turkey, calls for the release of all political prisoners and wants to work hand in hand with democratic actors from Turkey and the region to overthrow authoritarianism;
• acts in solidarity with the student protestors in Serbia, who for over a year have been demanding the resignation of Vucic and an end to the Vucic regime. This protest movement requires the clear, unequivocal and consequential political support of the European Union and of all democratic movements.