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Press Release | Democracy under Pressure 2025: In a turbulent world, Europe must lead the way towards a democratic future

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Call for participants 3rd European School on Memories Jean Monnet House (Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France) | 5 – 8 May 2025

Call for participants 3rd European School on Memories Jean Monnet House (Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France) | 5 - 8 May 2025 From the 5th to the 8th of May 2025, the Jean Monnet House of the European Parliament together with the University of…

14 March 2025

Statement | Hands off youth civil society ECR! Discharge Procedure EP CONT-Committee and the attacks against civil society organisations

We call on the rest of the CONT committee see this for the threat it is and to not let amendments attacking…

11 March 2025

Call for JEF Europe Project Coordinator | deadline: on rolling basis

Call for JEF Europe Project Coordinator deadline: on rolling basis……

10 March 2025

European Civil Society stands in solidarity with the people of Serbia

Letter in solidarity with the people of Serbia by over 130 European civil…

7 March 2025

Call for JEF sections to host the Spring 2026 Federal Committee Meeting

Call for JEF sections to host the Spring 2026 Federal Committee Meeting……

26 February 2025

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A political youth NGO advocating for the creation of a democratic European federation. An umbrella of 35+ national sections with >10k members 🇪🇺🟢

Berlin, Belgrade, Rome, Bucharest, Brussels, and s

Berlin, Belgrade, Rome, Bucharest, Brussels, and so many more 💚🇪🇺

Last Saturday, people across the continent gathered to demonstrate for justice, freedom, democracy, human rights, and Europe! The citizens demand action from governments and the European Union. We deserve to have our democracy protected, corruption to be fought against, to enjoy our freedom of expression without use of force by public authorities to silence the protest, and to demand a Europe that is capable to stand of it's core principles and values in times where those are under pressure.

We are united in defending our fundamental values, no matter where we are! 🇪🇺💚

Pictures: 1, 2, 3: Lutz Gude in Berlin
4, 5: Nenad Bušić in Belgrade
6, 7: Xesc Mainzer Cardell in Belgrade
8, 9: Benedetta Veneruso in Rome
10: Dan Roșu in Bucharest
11: Dan Mihai Bălănescu in Bucharest

#activism #democracy #demonstration #DefendDemocracy #DemocracyUnderPressure #Berlin #Rome #Bucharest #Belgrade #Europe #EU

🇷🇸🇪🇺URGENT STATEMENT BY JEF SERBIA (@f

🇷🇸🇪🇺URGENT STATEMENT BY JEF SERBIA (@forum_mladih) AND JEF EUROPE

We condemn the use of violence against peaceful protesters in today's student-led protest in Belgrade. There has been a reported use of violence against the protest monitors and army veterans guarding the building of the National Assembly of Serbia with the use of rocks and bottles. Moreover, there has been a report of the use of tear gas and canon strike by the police. According to the reports, violence has been initiated by pro-regime actors that barricaded the park across the National Assembly. Students have officially called off the demonstrations, with many people leaving for safety at pre-determined spots and to their homes, though some people have started to mobilise outside the National Assembly building. All students have been evacuated to their respective faculties. The gendarmerie has been deployed, with them expecting to react violently and repressively against remaining protestors outside the National Assembly building. According to the reports, two people have been arrested at this moment and dozens injured.

Today’s protest has been the largest in the history of Serbia, with an estimated over 200.000 citizens arriving in Belgrade for the event, some of them by foot travelling for up to 200km over the past couple of days. This protest comes after months of protests and barricades by students on their faculties and schools demanding accountability by the government for the tragedy in Novi Sad that killed 15 people and severely injured two people. Youth Forum of the European Movement in Serbia (JEF Serbia) stated support alongside JEF Europe for student demands in January.

The link to that full statement can be found here: https://jef.eu/news/joint-statement-l-inaction-is-complicity-silence-is-not-an-option/

Youth Forum EMinS (JEF Serbia) and JEF Europe stand with the students - the use of violence is unacceptable, and democracy cannot be put on hold.

🔴Democracy under Pressure 2025 coming next week

🔴Democracy under Pressure 2025 coming next week!

🔴The attacks against democracy and activits across Europe, Foreign Agent Registration Acts, threats to civil society, presenting NGO's as threats and pushing to silence then with threats to cut their dfunging, violent crack downs of protests, corruption and bribery investigated also at the heart of the European Union, authicratic leaders fighting for their power by making deals with dictators and general democratic backsliding across the world.

🔴Democracy needs its defenders more than ever! Join us and our sections next week in informing about the state of democracy and the threats it is facing, join actions and organise your own.

🔴Follow us, our sections and find out more on jef.eu/dup

🔴Our democracy deserves better and we can defend it together!

Photo of the European Parliament: CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2020 – Source: EP

#democracy #DemocracyNow #DemocracyUnderPressure #DefendDemocracy #activism #HumanRights #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EU

Call for Participants: 3rd European School on Memo

Call for Participants: 3rd European School on Memories 🇪🇺

🌍Where? Jean Monnet House, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France

📆When? 5-8 May 2025

Explore Europe’s past and its path to unity at this exciting seminar! Dive into lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities that will equip you with knowledge on European integration and the solidarity that shaped Europe.

🎓 Who can apply? Participants aged 18-35 from all European countries.
🎯 What’s covered? Accommodation, meals, local transport, and travel reimbursement up to €175.
⏳Apply by: 20th March 2025

💡Details & Application: Link in bio!

Don’t miss the chance to be part of this inspiring event! ✨✨

#History #JeanMonnet #FutureOfEurope #YouthInAction

‼️Funding for pro-European youth voices threat

‼️Funding for pro-European youth voices threatened! In a draft Report by the CONT-Committee in the European Parliament, an amendment made by MEPs of the ECR group: “Deplores the funding provided in 2023 by the European Parliament to pro-integration activist organisations such as the Young European Federalists and other pro-EU activists” and "notes with concern that this spending in many cases was intended to get a specific pro-European segment of the electorate (the youth) to go to the polls at the European Elections in 2024."

‼️The coordinators of the CONT committee will meet to discuss the proposed the amendments before the vote. We hope the rest of the committee sees this for the threat it is and does not let it proceed. Young people deserve to have their voices heard and to be informed about elections!

‼️This is part of a troubling trend over the last months of casting doubt on the integrity of civil society organisations and activists, at the EU level as well as in the member states. Under the guise of transparency, civil society's funding sources are being investigated, suggesting they may be mouthpieces for EU institutions and governments due to their heavy reliance on such funding, or even foreign agents. These accusations can have serious consequences on the ability of civil society organisations to fulfill its crucial role in our democracy.

‼️We as JEF regard this amendment as an undermining and censorship attempt not only on our work, but on all pro-European youth organisations that work tirelessly to further deepen European integration and call on the members of the CONT-Committee to oppose this and all amendments casting suspicion on NGOs.

‼️Read the full statement on our website.

⭐We have now seen the first 100 days of the seco

⭐We have now seen the first 100 days of the second von der Leyen Commission. While a lot has been done, this arbitrary deadline has led to rushing of many priority topics with some not getting as must attention.

⭐We have seen the first Omnibus package, Competitiveness Compass, Youth Dialogues (albeit some of the rushed and not as well planned leading to limited participation), ReArm Europe and soon to be white paper on defence. We praise the efforts of the Commission to support the future member states such as Ukraine and Moldova to be ready to enter the Union but want to point out a missing piece in this priority which was left to the sidelines: the enlargement test.

⭐Once again we remind that enlargement requires a Union that is ready to welcome new member states. Enlargement test is the tool of choice for this Commission and while we as federalists would prefer more impactful action (open the treaty negotiations🫵), we expect to see soon what this tool will look like!

Original picture of president von der Leyen: CC BY 2.0 European Parliament

🚨 Call for Project Coordinator at JEF Europe 🚨

Are you passionate about youth, European projects, and social change? JEF Europe is looking for a Project Coordinator to join our European Secretariat in Brussels!

📅 Deadline: Rolling basis, apply now! Start ideally in April/May 2025.

👉 Check our link in bio to learn more and to apply!

For questions, reach out to sg@jef.eu.

#JobOpportunity #ProjectCoordinator #EUprojects #BrusselsJobs

🇪🇺European Parliament is gathering for anoth

🇪🇺European Parliament is gathering for another plenary in Strasbourg and we took a look at what is interesting on the agenda 🤓

🇪🇺There are several interesting topics coming up: the up coming European Council meetings, support for Ukraine and European security, freezing of Russian assets, first Omnibus proposals, union of skills, clean industrial deal. white paper on defence and many other topics.

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