The Commissioners-designate hearings in 2024

The Commissioners-designate hearings in 2024

As part of the Citizens Take Over Europe coalition, Alliance4Europe delivered a Democratic Manifesto following the 2024 EU elections. The manifesto serves to provide solutions to how to manage the EU’s democratic deficits.  From November 4th to November 12th 2024, the Commissioner-designates, selected by President-elect Ursula von der Leyen, will...

EU Elections Network

EU Elections Network

Alliance4Europe (A4E), together with 29 partner organisations, has set up an EU Election Network to protect the June European Parliament (EP) elections from domestic and foreign disinformation threats and to work in collaboration with like-minded initiatives. The Network is working on coordinating common responses and recommendations and...

Read Twice showed us how to be more aware of our digital consumption

Read Twice showed us how to be more aware of our digital consumption

PRESS RELEASE 20 March 2024, Sofia Five countries, five partners, 30 curious and knowledge-seeking young content creators, hundreds of participants who were part of the EU-funded Read Twice (R2) project, led by Euro Advance Association, whose mission was to raise the level of digital media literacy among youth in Europe, with focus on Bulgaria,...

Techno-Colony Europe?

If Europe doesn’t take action and put its money where its mouth is, it is likely to end up a Techno-colony. As the Conference on the Future of Europe meets for the first time, participants need to set out an ambitious vision with clear demands. By Omri Preiss and Benjamin Zeeb As the Conference on the Future of Europe Plenary session launches in...

Time to end the veto

The new US president tours Europe, and the need to abolish national vetos on EU policy becomes ever clearer.  As Joe Biden arrives in Brussels on his European tour, he will try to meet with the EU. The  European side will be represented by Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, two of the bloc’s co-Presidents. The three no doubt talked about...

What is at stake? The Future of Europe seen from Tel Aviv

What I learnt about the future of Europe on a night of exploding rockets in Tel Aviv. I landed in Tel Aviv from Brussels to see family and friends for the first time in a long time, a change of scene from the locked-down capital of Europe. “Get some sunshine and hummus”, they said. “Can you get a vaccine?” they said. On Tuesday evening last week,...

To make sense of the world, we need to be digital learning societies

How we see the world depends on what we know and how we learn. For democracies, our ability to make decisions on crucial issues depends on our ability to make sense of the world together. That is why education and active citizenship are so crucial for the future of a democratic Europe. It’s important to give your eyes rest during the day, a...

The Future of Europe is now

The continent has been in a transformative crisis, and while leaders have wrangled over a Conference on the Future of Europe, citizens organised and took action. What we need now is vision, agenda and accountability. Just a short while ago, we watched a dystopian reality unfold as a mob of white supremacists attacked the US Capitol, incited by a...