Events

Policy debate around the vision of the European political parties

Date: 19 January 2024

Time: 12.00 to 13.00 CET

Location: Online

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A thriving civic space is an important pillar of healthy democracies, one of the core values that EU citizens and people want to be defended by the European Parliament. However, a series of challenges still limits the space for civil society in the EU and the opportunities to meaningfully contribute to policy making.

In the framework of the EU election campaign Civil Society for EU, promoted by Social Platform and Civil Society Europe, this event aims to explore:

• The views of the main European political parties on the links between threats to democracy and shrinking civic space against the backdrop of next year’s European elections, in a context of increasing debate polarisation and risks of interference.
• The parties’ vision on civil society’s role to preserve and contribute to European democracies, as well as actions and proposals to counter shrinking civic space and foster civil society participation.

Read the programme here.

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