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Democracy, equality & culture beyond the nation state! Imagine, demand, enact ... Join us!

European Alternatives is a citizen-powered transnational grassroots organization imagining, demanding, and enacting democracy, equality, and culture beyond the nation state. Operating from our local hubs in Berlin, Paris and Palermo, we are dedicated to the democratic and solidary transformation of our political institutions, our economic system, and our civil societies that many people in Europe

and around the world are striving for. Otherwise, we will not be able to truly understand and address the most urgent political, cultural, and social issues that Europe is facing in our time: the pandemic and the climate crisis, human rights violations at the European borders, socio-economic inequalities, democratic deficits, new wars and global conflicts, as well as the emergence of right-wing forces leading to violence and a backlash on fundamental rights of all marginalized communities. European Alternatives was founded by young people from around the world in 2007 in London on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Since then, as a transnational team together with our progressive community of transnationalists from activism, academia, and the arts, we have acted in the belief that only when people have democratic control over their lives and futures do they feel safe and free to care for themselves and others as they would like to do. In 2021, EA links three hubs operating as independent legal entities in three different European cities: European Alternatives Berlin e.V., Alternatives Européennes Paris, and Studio Rizoma Palermo. We are a cross-border team working and traveling in changing constellations on different projects in many places around Europe with a variety of powerful partners and collaborators as well as a progressive community of transnational activists, artists, and academics. Are you a progressive activist, academic, or artist, part of a grassroots initiative, civil society organisation or social movement? Across borders, citizens in communities and cities build a new Europe of solidarity and justice.

13/03/2026

Twenty years later, the story continues.
Join us in our journey and stay tuned to find out more. 💫

28/02/2026

Four days before 8 March, we step into the European Parliament with a clear question:

What does a feminist response to the anti-gender backlash in Europe actually look like?

📍 4 March | 15:30–17:30 CET
Room ASP 3G3, European Parliament, Brussels
With the support of MEP Emma Rafowicz

Anti-gender movements are organised, funded, and strategic. If democracy is being reshaped, so must our response. This conversation brings together MEPs, activists and NGOs to move beyond diagnosis, and talk concrete political action at EU level.

Join us:
– In person: register via the official S&D form (link in caption)
– Online: follow the livestream on the Socialists & Democrats website

Co-organised with the support of MEP

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27/02/2026

A historic win for reproductive rights in Europe ✊

The European Commission’s backing of initiative marks a powerful step toward safe and accessible abortion care for all across the EU.

We will keep organizing, advocating, and building a feminist future. 💞📣

26/02/2026

📣 CALL FOR ARTICLES — EA Journal Issue 13
Europe’s Position in the World 🌍

We’re looking for essays, investigations, fiction, visual & experimental work - politically engaged and boldly imagined.

🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026
🌐 English (other languages welcome)
🔗 Link in bio

Let’s rethink Europe from its margins, contradictions & entanglements. ✊

24/02/2026

The Italy–Albania agreement isn’t just a bilateral deal — it’s a European test case.

As migration policy stretches beyond national borders, bigger questions emerge: responsibility, human rights, and the future of EU cooperation.

In Issue 12, Nicoletta Alessio unpacks why this pact matters far beyond Rome and Tirana — and what it signals for Europe’s next move.

Read the full analysis at the link in our bio. 🔗

Don't forget to submit your articles for Issue 13. 💫

05/02/2026

Suite au succès de Transeuropa Paris 2025 et à l’activation croissante de notre réseau, nous élargissons notre communication avec des contenus en français, sans remplacer l’anglais.

📬 Pour recevoir la newsletter en français, inscrivez-vous via le lien en bio.

04/02/2026

Are you a young activist aged 18–25, or curious to learn more about the world of activism? 🌱

Prepare your questions and join our mentorship programme!
Next week with Anna, Dina, and Diana! ✨

👉 Register via the link in bio and discover the other mentors joining the programme.

03/02/2026

✨ What is EA? | TRAIN ✨

Through the TRAIN stream, European Alternatives strengthens the skills, tools, and capacities of young people, activists, and organisers to turn ideas into action and participation into lasting engagement.

From YMCA – Youth Movement and Campaign Accelerator, whose third phase successfully took place in Paris in December 2025 with 20 young participants, to the Critical ChangeLab mentorship programme, TRAIN creates spaces for learning, exchange, and collective growth.

📣 Open call for young activists aged 18–25 to apply for online mentoring sessions in February 2026.
Learn, connect, and build the skills needed to shape democratic change → link in bio.

03/02/2026

📣 Register now and join the conversation tomorrow on how the EU budget can strengthen democracy where it matters most: in the regions.

With over one-third of the EU budget implemented at regional level, transparency, democratic oversight and the fight against corruption are daily political practice. As negotiations on the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework unfold, this event brings together MEPs, regional leaders and civil society to ask: how can EU funds truly build citizen trust?

We’ll be there as part of the Future of Democracy Parliamentary Intergroup, with our Director Niccolo Milanese, alongside representatives of the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Ombudsman.

The event is moderated by Daniela Vancic, Democracy International.

🗓 Tomorrow February 4
🕙 10:00–13:00
📍 Brussels + online
🎟 Registration required

👉 Register now at the link in bio.

02/02/2026

📣 Call for Articles — EA Journal Issue 13
Europe’s Position in the World
Power, responsibility and transnational futures
🗓 March 2026 | Languages: English & German
As European Alternatives moves toward its twentieth year, we return to the questions that have shaped our work from the beginning — not to celebrate a finished story, but to take stock of what remains unresolved. Europe, for us, has never been a completed project or a stable entity. It has been a site of struggle and possibility, formed through histories of empire and resistance, solidarity and exclusion, responsibility and selective forgetting.

These tensions continue to define Europe’s position in the world today. For Issue 13 of the European Alternatives Journal, we invite politically engaged, analytically sharp and imaginatively bold contributions that critically examine Europe’s position in the world beyond Eurocentrism, and that imagine alternative, decolonial and solidaristic futures.

🧭 We are looking for essays, think-pieces, investigations, testimonies, fiction, speculative or poetic writing, visual and multimedia work, including experimental and hybrid formats.
Previously published works are also welcome.

🗓 Deadline for final submissions: 1 March 2026
Link in bio.

This is a non-commercial publication. Contributions may be translated into English and/or German, and proposals in other languages are welcome.

Let’s rethink Europe from its margins, its contradictions, and its entanglements with the world. ✊

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