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European Alternatives works to promote democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation-state and imagine, demand and enact alternatives for a viable future.
Letter to my fellow anti-colonialism fighters
By Rasha Shaaban, Cultural Organiser based in Gothenburg with roots in Alexandria, and Board Member of European Alternatives. For the past two years, I have been angry. I’ve been feeling an anger coming out from disbelief and witnessing unbearable injustice.…
Democracy in Crisis: Towards Permanent Citizens’ Assemblies
Photo credits: Noemi Pittalà On 14 October 2025, in Brussels, the European Parliament hosted a roundtable co-organised with Democratic Odyssey to debate a bold question: Should a Permanent European Citizens’ Assembly stand alongside the European Parliament? This moment marked the…
Artivist Residency – Voices of Water: From the River to the Sea
📍 Bobigny, Île-de-France📅 17–21 November 2025 REGISTER HERE The Questions How does water, from one shore to another, flow through our lives and struggles?How can we create empathetic links through rivers, canals, seas, and aquatic beings?How do we make visible…
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Strike for Gaza 🍉
Today in Italy, a nationwide strike for Palestine brought the country to a halt. Schools, offices, shops, everything stopped. The streets and squares filled with crowds carrying banners and flags, demanding justice and liberation for Palestine. The nationwide strike in…
MOOC Launch: Youth, Democracy & Technology
We’re launching a new online course: Youth, Democracy & Technology: Participatory Approaches for Critical Consciousness. The Critical Change Labs (CCLabs) project announces the launch of a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Youth, Democracy and Technology: Participatory Approaches for Critical…
Articles about Gaza
A curated collection of articles highlighting global solidarity with Palestine
Pride in LGBTQI+, Pride in Diversity, Pride in Democracy
STATEMENT The Hungarian government of Victor Orban has passed laws and constitutional amendments that attempt to ban public events by LGBTQI+ people, including Budapest Pride, scheduled for the 28th June this year. The constitutional amendment authorises the use of surveillance…
Democracy is a collective act of care
Together, we rise. Together, we fight. Together, we care. Event at Funkhaus, Argentinierstraße 30A, 1040 Wien, Austria – 23 May 2025 Registration form Overview ‘Democracy as a collective act of care’ is a complementary event to the Democratic Odyssey’s Vienna…
OPEN CALL | Mentoring young activists-to-be: MYCELIA mentors are there for you
The second round of the MYCELIA mentorship programme (Mentoring Youth for Collective Engagement in Learning, Interaction, and Activism) of the Critical ChangeLab project is launched – find out more here and apply before October 30. Does the world around you…
Islamophobic, anti-migrant, racist violence must be surmounted by community organising and solidarity networks
It is completely unacceptable that for over a week people seeking asylum, Muslim people and other racialized communities, including Roma, in the UK have been living with far-right hatred and immediate violence. Graves have been desecrated, numerous people have been…
Movement Learning Catalyst: building a learning community across struggles and places.
The Movement Learning Catalyst has great news for you. We are about to share a new Learner’s Guide and launch a new action-learning platform that aims to nurture the interconnected movements, realities and responsive strategies needed to challenge systems of…
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Journal
Palestine and Italy, between double talk and impotence
By Gianluca Solera, advisory board member Years ago, a Palestinian writer, we were in Ramallah, told me that every time Israel comes with good news, you have to worry about the bad news hidden behind it. She had given me…
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Dirty Work
by Gianluca Solera “Israel is doing the dirty work for all of us”. When the German Chancellor stated it during the last G7, held in mid-June, he was proud of himself and proud of being a pro-Israel supporter whatever it…
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A Citizens’ Assembly for Europe: Why Permanence is key
by Kalypso Nicolaidis In 2020, Alberto Alemanno, Niccolo Milanese and myself called for the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe to create a permanent citizens’ assembly for Europe (Alemanno et al, 2020). Subsequently we launched the Democratic Odyssey project,…
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CCLabs Conference on Education for Democracy
Event Overview The DEMOCRAT conference on Education for Democracy aims to contribute to the debate about the role of civic education, and in particular democratic education, in fostering the resilience of the EU model of democracy.Democracy is conceived not only as a…
Report on Dissemination Event for Ordinary Citizens
The Democratic Odyssey is a crowdsourced campaign aimed at democratic renewal through the establishment of a “permanent people’s assembly for Europe”. It brings together a wide-ranging and pluralistic group of actors, including academics, practitioners, journalists, institutional representatives and civil society.…
Ceasefire Now! Open call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza strip and Israel.
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Between Land and Sea Festival 2025 — Palermo
November & December 2025 European Alternatives is proud to be a partner of the 6th edition of Between Land and Sea, the cultural and political festival produced by Fondazione Studio Rizoma in Palermo. Rooted in the shared realities of the…
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Education
At European Alternatives we are always learning. We seek to create spaces to share our experiences and learn from wider movements, communities and partners. To this end, we co-create training and learning programmes for young people, activists, civil society, people…
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Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator
The Youth Movement & Campaign Accelerator is part of European Alternatives’ School of Transnational Organizing and offers European youth and community leaders a space to organise and develop actions to advance struggles for solidarity, democracy and climate justice.
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TRANSEUROPA26: Reclaiming the Cloud
But still, like air, I’ll rise.Maya Angelou After finding the Undercurrents of new political imaginaries in Venice in 2024, and igniting Margins on Fire in Paris in 2025, the October 2026 edition of TRANSEUROPA Festival will inflate life into our…
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Campaigns
At European Alternatives we campaign collectively.Our campaigns bring together movements, communities, and partners to amplify voices, build solidarity, and push for transnational change. We work across borders to challenge injustice, advocate for democracy, and create imaginative actions that connect local…