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News - 2 February 2020

Philanthropy Advocacy raises awareness around the new money laundering and terrorism financing policy

The Philanthropy Advocacy (DAFNE and EFC) team organised in early 2020 a series of training’s and information sessions on how philanthropy can engage around money laundering and terrorism financing policies.
News - 30 January 2020

“Philanthropy in the digital age”

“Philanthropy in the digital age” is an ERSTE Foundation Talk Europe! video with Lucy Bernholz “First we have to figure out how to make technology work for our…
News - 29 January 2020

Barrow Cadbury Trust. 100 years of working for social justice.

To mark the centenary of the Barrow Cadbury Trust, a short animated video was created to illustrate the social justice work of Trust, past, present, and future.
News - 27 January 2020

Philanthropic Leadership Platform: Russia Europe 2019 Highlights

Highlights from the first edition of the Philanthropic Leadership Platform: Russia-Europe 2019. Undertaken in partnership with the Vladimir Potanin Foundation, the programme helped 20 participants focus…
News - 17 January 2020

Letter from 62 Bulgarian civil society organisations to the European institutions on smear campaign against civil society in Bulgaria

A group of 62 Bulgarian civil society organisations addressed the European Commissioners with a letter in which they described the smear campaign taking place in Bulgaria against CSOs, mainly…
News - 15 January 2020

Advocate General considers foreign funding restrictions in Hungary incompatible with EU law

On 14 January 2020 the Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona released his opinion, in which he concluded that the restrictions imposed by the Hungarian Transparency law are not compatible with…
News - 20 December 2019

New mission letter for Vice-President Jourová recognizes her role in dialogue with civil society and philanthropy

At the beginning of December 2019 the new mission letter for Vice–President Jourová was published on the European Commission’s website. President Von der Leyen has modified the mission of Vice-President…
News - 15 December 2019

Quo vadis, Europe?

Looking at the priorities of the new European Commission, that took office on 1 December 2019, Max von Abendroth highlights the overlap with the work and ambitions of the philanthropy…
News - 20 November 2019

Switzerland: Federal Council refrains from making charitable foundations subject to the AEOI

Federal Council plans announced at the end of February 2019 to make charitable foundations subject to the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) have been withdrawn for the time being. As…
News - 7 November 2019

Luca Jahier: “We need a dream for a positive future”

Report on the EESC Conference on Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law | 05.11.2019 in Brussels The EESC Conference on “Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law: Trends in…