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DIRECTORIES  Return to Top
EU Money Service - provides outline details of EU grants available to organisations throughout the world
Grand-Place Europe - directory of NGOs, news and information about European organisations
Network of European World Shops (NEWS) - represents 2500 World Shops in Europe and promotes fair trade through educational campaigns and lobbying
 
 
 
 
 
Asia Urbs - EC-funded initiative, aims to enhance mutual understanding and awareness between Asia and Europe by supporting urban development projects
Association of World Council of Churches (APRODEV) Development
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Europe (Brussels) - aims to help donors make the most of their giving, and non profit organisations make the most of their resources
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Brussels - works to influence European Union development and humanitarian policies and practice in a positive direction
EuropaWorld (Wales) - reports on international development and humanitarian actions of European institutions, governments and NGOs
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) (Bonn) - independent, non-profit international network of 170 organisations with over 20 working groups addressing key issues in development research, training and information
European Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (EuronAid) (The Hague, Netherlands) - European network of NGOs active in the field of Food Aid and Food Security, which facilitates the implementation of NGO programmes and promotes a critical dialogue on food aid and food security policies with the European Commission
European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) (London) - umbrella organisation for co-operation between European NGOs concerned with refugees, with over 72 member agencies in 28 countries whose principal activities include policy development and research, advocacy, legal analysis, information services to members, and networking and capacity-building in South-Eastern, Central and Eastern Europe
European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD) (Brussels) - network of Development NGOs from 16 European countries working for a more equitable and just world by pushing for development finance and associated policies that support pro-poor and democratically defined sustainable development strategies
European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation for People (Eurostep) (Brussels) - network of 19 NGDOs from 13 European countries which aims to influence official development co-operation policies and to improve NGO initiatives in support of people-centred development
Solidar - independant development and social welfare agencies based in Europe which are linked to the labour and democratic socialist movement
SUSTAIN - the alliance for better food and farming
 
 
 
Centre For Alternative Technology (UK) - Europe's leading Eco-Centre, inspires people from all walks of life to explore sustainable solutions
EcoMarket International - European platform for green products and services
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions - sustainable development
European Partners for the Environment (Belgium)  
NativeWeb Resources - dedicated to providing information about all native, aboriginal, and indigenous nations and peoples of the world
 
European Alliance of Neuromuscular Disorders Associations (EAMDA) (London)
 
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - Europe (New York) - monitors abuses against the press and promote press freedom
around the world
Council of Europe Human Rights Web
European Roma Rights Center
European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)  
European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) (London) - umbrella organisation for co-operation between European NGOs concerned with refugees, with over 72 member agencies in 28 countries whose principal activities include policy development and research, advocacy, legal analysis, information services to members, and networking and capacity-building in South-Eastern, Central and Eastern Europe
RefugeeNet - integration of refugees in Europe
Statewatch - monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union
 
Constitutional & Legal Policy Institute (COLPI) - Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Mongolia
European Centre for Conflict Prevention - network of European NGOs
European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation (Netherlands) - open network of 150 key European organisations working to prevent and/or resolve violent conflicts in the international arena, by facilitating the exchange of information and experience among participating organisations and stimulating co-operation and synergy
Europe's Forum on International Cooperation (Euforic)
Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN)
North-South Centre - raises public awareness of global interdependence issues
Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe - an initiative of the European Union
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Südtiroler VolksPartei (SVP)  
 
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO)
Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe (UNICE) - employers and business lobby
Trade Unions:
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU)
European Metalworkers Federation (EMF)
European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers Federation (EMCEF)
European Transport Workers Federation (ETF)
 
BLINK (Black Information Link) - information exchange on Black issues in Europe
 
POLITICS & GOVERNANCE  Return to Top
Governance:
Asia-Europe Dialogue (ASED) on alternative political strategies - aims to encourage a dialogue between Asia and Europe in order to foster alternative political strategies and models of development
EU Accession Monitoring Program (EUMAP) - monitors compliance with aspects of the Copenhagen political criteria for accession, reflecting the interests of the Soros foundation network in promoting human rights and democracy, monitoring focuses on minority rights, judicial independence, corruption and equal opportunities for women and men
Political groups and parties:
Autonomen Provinz Bozen (Südtirol)
Confederal Group of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left
Den Krieg überleben [DKÜ] - Bosnien, Flucht und Rückkehr
Europe of Nations - Eurosceptics
European Community Organisation of Socialist Youth (ECOSY) - gathers Socialist youth movements of the European Union and also of Eastern and Central Europe
European Democrat Students - element of the European People's Party
European Federation of Green Parties
European Free Alliance - Democratic Party of the Peoples of Europe (EFA-PDPE)
European Liberal-Democrats & Reformists (ELDR)
European Liberal, Democatic and Reform Party (ELDR) in the European Parliament
European People's Party (EPP)
European Young Conservatives
European Young Socialists (ECOSY)
Federation of the Young European Greens (FYEG)
Greens-EFA in the European Parliament
Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities (EDD) in the European Parliament
Grupo Parlamentar Socialista Português no Parlamento Europeu - Portuguese Socialist Group in the European Parliament
Internationale Paneuropa-Union
Luxembourg Socialists in the European Parliament (Les socialistes luxembourgeois au Parlement européen)
Liberal Youth Movement of the European Union (LYMEC)
Parti Communautaire National-européen
Party of European Socialists
Prometheus-Europe - democracy and global civil society
Radical Right-wing Parties in Europe
Regione Autonoma Trentino Alto  
 
North-South Centre - raises public awareness of global interdependence issues
 
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) (Netherlands) - research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups
European Network on Debt and Development (EuroDaD) - NGOs working on the issues of Third World debt, structural adjustment and financial markets
European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)
Institute for Economic Studies Europe (Paris)
Liberální institut (Liberal Institute) (Prague) - classic liberalism
North-South Centre - raises public awareness of global interdependence issues