SOLIDAR & SOLIDAR Foundation

☀️🏖️ Don't know what to read on the beach this August? Try the EU Spring Package.

The European Commission's 2025 Spring Package marks a clear political shift: competitiveness & defence top the agenda, while social priorities are once again left trailing behind.⚠️

🔗 Read the article: bit.ly/44Qhc2G

📢 The July SOLIDAR Dispatch is out!

This month you'll find:
🇵🇸 The EU’s failure to act on Gaza, 🏠 key takeaways from our event on affordable housing, upcoming actions & more...

☀️ Last edition before our summer break, we’ll be back in September!

🔗 Read here: bit.ly/4oeD2Va

How can lifelong learning help advance a just transition around Europe? 🤔

The Just4All project explores this, and the project partners have aimed to answer this question in their national contexts.

Read the background papers from Ireland, Sweden, France & Cyprus: www.solidar.org/publications...

@ambrela.bsky.social @eaea.org @kopinmalta.bsky.social @grupazagranica.bsky.social @suedwind.at

🌍 We’ve launched the Civil Society Alliance for Global Citizenship Education!

A vibrant network of 25 CSOs across Europe, united to champion GCE through advocacy, action, and education.📣

🤝 Are you a civil society organisation sharing our vision?
Join us!

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3U63bYC

What role for a socially just green transition in the next European Union budget?   - solidar.org In July 2024, Ursula von der Leyen's Political Guidelines promised to significantly increase funding for a just transition in the next long-term EU budget. However, subsequent communications by the…

📢 The Commission’s #MFF proposal is now on the table — but will it fund a just green transition?

The promises are there. The investment plans? Still missing.

Our brief with @FEPS shows how the EU budget can drive real environmental & social change.

📘Read the brief: bit.ly/46pT73Q

@greenpeace.org @oxfameu.bsky.social @350.org @nuclearban.bsky.social @palmecenter.bsky.social

SOLIDAR joins the global call to action launched by @ituc.bsky.social & partners to call for disarmament and justice!

No more war profiteering, No billionaires coups. ✊

It’s time to fund people, not weapons 🕊️

🚨TODAY, join the webinar organised by the @ituc.bsky.social & partners to discuss why governments must reorient global priorities from weapons and war to social justice and human development! ⚖️🌍

🔗 Register below

Looking for some summer reading? Check out our brief on the Clean Industrial Deal! 👀⤵️

While the Commission branded the CID as a way to boost 'comptetitiveness' and reduce emissions, questions remain regarding its potential to advance a just transition.

Learn more: www.solidar.org/publications...

@aontas.com

How can Europe’s green shift be fair for everyone?

📍 Join us on Sept 24 at the EU Parliament for the final #Just4All roundtable.
We’re sharing tools, results, and policy proposals to make adult learning work for all, including those often left behind.

🔗Register here:https://bit.ly/44RmoCd

@uniofglos.bsky.social @comeniusuni.bsky.social @rug.nl

📢 Call for Contributions — CLADES 2026
🗓️ Feb 25–26, 2026 | 📍 Ghent University

Explore how language shapes justice, sustainability & inclusion.
Submit papers, workshops, or creative formats.

📝 Deadline: Oct 1, 2025
🔗 More info here: bit.ly/457zL2l

As well as the suspension of the agreement, we call for:

🔹Full resumption of aid into Gaza
🔹An arms embargo against Israel and economic sanctions on Israeli leaders

🔗https://www.solidar.org/news-and-statements/do-not-look-away-keep-your-eyes-on-gaza-palestine-israel-occupation-social-justice/

With each failure to take decisive action, the EU becomes increasingly complicit.

The EU has the power - and the responsibility - to suspend the EU-Israel Association agreement based on Israel's clear violations of its human rights obligations under Art 2. This can no longer be up for debate. (2/3)

EU leaders have once again chosen inaction in the killing of civilians and targeting of civilian infrastructure in Gaza.

Rather than suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement, The Foreign Affairs Council has failed to hold Israel to account for the death and destruction it is causing. (1/3)

We join @eu.rescue.org and 50+ CSOs raising the alarm on EU 'safe country' proposals which risk seriously undermining people’s access to fair and full asylum procedures.

🔗https://www.solidar.org/news-and-statements/eu-safe-country-proposals-would-seriously-undermine-protection-and-human-dignity/

📢 It’s here! Our 2024 Annual Report is now live.

This past year, SOLIDAR and the SOLIDAR Foundation worked to advance social justice across Europe and beyond!

💡 Dive into the achievements, impact, and key figures that shaped our work in 2024.

👉 Read the full report: bit.ly/3GrN04A

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@palmecenter.bsky.social @solsoc.bsky.social @ccoo.bsky.social

Let's be clear: the inaction of EU leaders is costing lives. Foreign ministers must take clear and concrete action to hold Israel to account for its ongoing abuses of human rights in Palestine.

Learn more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

SOLIDAR joined over 200 other orgs to call for the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in light of Israel's non-compliance with its human rights obligations.

EU foreign ministers failed to achieve this in June - they must not fail when they meet again on 15 July. #SuspendTheDeal

📢 How can civil society make our collective voice known on the matters that affect people across the EU?

The 2025 Civil Society State of the Union report addresses this question, proposing solutions for a democratic and socially and environmentally just EU.

🔗 civilsocietyeurope.eu/cssoteu-2025/

The next #MFF must deliver on the EU’s promise to fund a socially just green transition.

In a new policy brief by SOLIDAR and @feps-europe.eu, Amandine Crespy & Tiago Moreira Ramalho outline how the EU budget post-2027 can mainstream just transition goals.

📕 Read: bit.ly/46pT73Q

We want give a huge thank you to our speakers and all the participants that joined us. It has been an incredible opportunity to discuss, exchange ideas and solutions on how to move forward to deliver sustainable and affordable homes for all! Because housing is a human right! ✊🏡

SOLIDAR’s webinar: Shaping a Socially Just & Sustainable European Affordable Housing Plan is officially underway.

We are joined by experts from civil society, trade unions, and EU institutions to assess the potential of the Affordable Housing Plan to promote a fairer and more sustainable Europe!

📢 That's a wrap on SOLIDAR and SOLIDAR Foundation's 2025 Annual General Assembly!

Last week, our members and allies gathered in Brussels to take key decisions for our network and to have discussions about our shared challenges and solutions.

Read the re-cap: www.solidar.org/news-and-sta...

The Political Forum as our Annual General Assembly is getting underway!

Looking forward to discussing how to confront our current political context with our esteemed speakers:

🔹Fabrizia Panzetti, @socialistsanddemocrats.eu
🔹Giulio Romani @etuc-ces.bsky.social
🔹Patrizia Heidegger @eeb.org

Today is the day! 📢 It’s time for the SOLIDAR & SOLIDAR Foundation 2025 Annual General Assembly🥳

We are excited to welcome in Brussels our members joining us from across Europe.

👀 Stay tuned for more…