Lobby organisation
Forum Civique Européen
NGO or non-profit · Democracy & civil society · HQ: France · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, Forum Civique Européen appears in 28 declared MEP meetings (17 different MEPs), most often with Greens/EFA.
In their own words
“The European Civic Forum (ECF) is a pan-European network of nearly 100 associations and NGOs across 30 European countries. Founded in 2005 by our member organisations, we have spent nearly two decades working to protect civic space, enable civic participation and build civil dialogue for more equality, solidarity, and democracy in Europe.”
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“Our diverse membership includes national platforms of NGOs uniting hundreds of thousands of NGOs, human rights advocacy, and campaigning organisations, big federations of associations deeply rooted in local constituencies, smaller organisations working in their communities or engaging with the public on local issues. ECF works to: 1. Identify and raise awareness of civil society’s needs, threats and success stories 2. Increase capacities, resilience and cooperation within and beyond ECF network 3. Promote more systematic and impactful participation of civil society in EU democratic participatory processes […]”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing - the text on file breaks off mid-sentence where marked […].
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 28 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2019–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (8 in 2026). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.
Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.
The MEPs they meet most
The 15 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2026 | Alice Kuhnke | AgoraEU |
| 13 May 2026 | Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle | Launch of Civic Space Report |
| 7 May 2026 | Lucia Yar | AgoraEU Programme |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Victor Negrescu | Exchange on civil society priorities for the MFF |
| 9 Apr 2026 | Alice Kuhnke | AgoraEU |
| 23 Mar 2026 | Alice Kuhnke | AgoraEU - Civil Society |
| 3 Mar 2026 | Alice Kuhnke | AgoraEU |
| 25 Feb 2026 | Alice Kuhnke | AgoraEU - civil society |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Sirpa Pietikäinen | Civic space |
| 25 Sep 2025 | Abir Al-Sahlani | Palestine solidarity actions |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Birgit Sippel | Civic space; future MFF/ CERV programme |
| 20 May 2025 | Benedetta Scuderi | work on civic space |
| 14 May 2025 | Cecilia Strada | Current restrictions to Civic space and Civil Society organizations in Europe |
| 20 Mar 2025 | Sergey Lagodinsky | Panellist |
| 19 Feb 2025 | Alice Kuhnke | Anti-discrimination |
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