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Shaping a European budget fit for climate action and a just transition

Briefing | 6 May, 2025 | Download PDF

This policy brief explores five key elements for an EU budget that promotes sustainability, social cohesion and transparent governance.


Proposal for just transition in Western Balkans for next Multiannual Financial Framework

Briefing | 2 May, 2025 | Download PDF

With the financing for just transition on the EU level under threat, the ambition for moving forward with just transition on the local level in the Western Balkans is rapidly decreasing because the EU is not prioritising the process. To revive ambition


Proposals for the next EU budget

Policy comments | 24 April, 2025 | Download PDF

Our current crises stem from the environmental and social injustices of past decades. It is therefore essential that we learn from current EU budget instruments to create a coherent, strategic, enforceable and accessible framework for the next EU budget.


The EBRD’s Green Economy Transition (GET) approach 2.1: What needs to be changed for the EBRD’s new green approach

Comments | 7 April, 2025 | Download PDF

These comments on the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Green Economy Transition approach were provided to the in early April 2025, as input for the Bank’s review of how it labels its green spending.


Unprecedented Attacks on NGOs in the EU – We Call on All Democratic Forces To Act for a Strong and Independent Civil Society

Statement | 7 April, 2025 | Download PDF

At a time when democratic values are being eroded across the EU and Member States, and civic actors acting for these values are increasingly under attack, this renewed offensive on funding for CSOs and on our legitimacy in the democratic process risks not only shrinking European civic spaces further but weakening democracy as a whole.