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European citizenship is being taken for granted!

ECIT Foundation is the only organisation that brings all the different components of European citizenship together.  Created as a public foundation, ECIT entirely devoted to this cause, making this unique transnational citizenship our sole “raison d’être”.

At first sight, EU citizenship is simply in the making, with more Europeans than ever before, interacting across borders and living or working in other European countries. Being a citizen of Europe has both legal substance, and deep cultural and historical roots. 

Right-wing extremist and populist forces are appealing to xenophobia and retreating behind national borders. Events such as Brexit could cause the loss of this status at a stroke. Make no mistake — EU citizenship might be a “social fact”, but it is being quietly side-lined from political discourse as an irrelevance. This is occurring even when repeated crises show us that only solidarity and common citizenship can allow Europe to progress.

If you make a donation, we would very much like to publish your name and contact details on our page of founders and supporters. You will also receive our monthly newsletter. 

If you have any questions or proposals about ECIT and your involvement, do please contact us at info@ecit-foundation.eu.

If you are passionate about EU citizenship, get in contact with us to ask us questions or give us proposals, just come and meet us at SECO.

What else you can you? You can support the work we do by making a donation to ECIT in order to strengthen our capacity to fight for a stronger and more inclusive European citizenship.

With your help, we can continue to work on our ambitious programme, which is based on three main aims. 

We believe that European citizenship must:

• come out of the shadows. It can no longer survive as a discreet scattered and disconnected series of rights and exchange programmes. How do we propose to do this? We believe that European citizenship needs more powerful symbols: a European citizens’ house to stand alongside all the prestigious buildings of the EU and corporate lobbies, and a European citizens’ card to cut “red tape” across borders and to enable citizens to sign initiatives and petitions more easily. ECIT has also been rapidly building a community with its annual Summer University, bringing together activists, academics and policy-makers. 

• be more political. Why are European citizens on the move allowed to vote and stand in local and European elections, but not in the ones which really count — the national and regional ones — or in referenda? To challenge this, ECIT is planning to launch a European citizens’ initiative to gather one million signatures to demand full political rights, the defining feature of real citizenship.

• become more inclusive and comprehensive. The European elections in 2019 are an opportunity to put on the agenda the need to strengthen EU citizenship in any future treaty revision. The new European Parliament could offer an opportunity for more open politics, including demands by civil society for a constitutional assembly. Despite the clamp down on institutional reform by cautious institutions, change is bubbling up from the grassroots.