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With ACT4FreeMovement we campaigned for freedom of movement with EU
citizens. ACT4FreeMovement stands for Advocacy, Complaints, Trainings for
Freedom of Movement. The program main goal is to increase the capacity of
EU citizens to effectively secure access to and knowledge of their rights,
as well as build public awareness and political support for mobile citizen
rights. To do so, the program employs a multilevel strategy involving:
research to identify specific problems and to define good practices;
EU-level advocacy through complaints to the European Commission and
petitions to the European Parliament; training of free movement activists;
and providing support for citizen-led grassroots campaigns on mobile
citizen rights.
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Freedom of movement and residence for EU nationals and non-EU family
members is the fundamental right the most cherished across the continent.
While a cross border move goes smoothly for many, there is still a large
number of EU citizens that report facing significant difficulties when
trying to exercise their free movement rights. In parallel, Brexit and the
normalisation of far-right and nationalist discourses have contributed to
the establishment of an hostile environment for EU citizens and non-EU
family members, impacting the mobile citizens rights of all across Europe.
and lobbying on to defend and expand free movement rights. The advocacy
will benefit from identifying the trends in EU free movement rights
violations in the last three years by searching the Your Europe Advice
database which contains more than 21 000 enquiries per year from citizens
who encounter difficulties when exercising their rights to free movement.
This already lead to the production of a report on obstacles to free
movement
http://ecas.org/obstacles-to-entry-and-residence-rights-still-a-burden-to-eu-mobile-citizens.
An additional report will be produced on the best practices, i.e.
administrative measures that address freedom of movement infringements on
national contexts.
complaints to the European Commission and petitions to the European
Parliament, aiming at concretely address certain sets of free movement
rights to the European institutions. Six complaints will be prepared by EU
Rights Clinic on EU entry and residence rights. Six additional actions will
be prepared from the Good Lobby which can include issues such as Roma
rights mobility, political and democratic rights, access to social welfare
and unemployment, recognition of same-sex marriage, loss of EU citizenship
post-Brexit, etc.
series of four trainings for citizens and activists concerned by the
violation of EU mobile citizens rights across the continent. The trainings
will physically take place in Warsaw, Madrid, London and Florence over a
period of 10 months. The objective of the training series is to provide
knowledge on the legal framework of freedom of movement, the tools to find
information and enforce their EU rights, and to develop the campaigning
skills of the participants grassroots campaigns advocating for the defence
of free movement and EU mobile citizens rights.
CAMPAIGNS
Following to the ACT4FreeMovement training series, 16 activists have been
awarded a grand to secure access to and knowledge of the rights EU citizens
and non-EU family members and build public awareness and political support
for mobile citizen rights.
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COMMUNICATIONS
Regular articles and interviews are published on the transnational online
magazine Political Critique http://politicalcritique.org/ to raise
awareness on the violations of free movement rights of marginalised EU
citizens – workers, non-EU third country nationals, etc.
http://politicalcritique.org/cee/czech-republic/2018/the-blame-will-always-lie-with-the-dead/,
Vaclav Drozed
Janina Pecsinski
Petar Markovic
Interview with campaigner, Teresa Buczkowska
http://politicalcritique.org/world/eu/2018/migration-is-key-to-political-fights-in-the-21st-century/,
Interview with lawyer, Volker Gerloff
http://politicalcritique.org/world/eu/2018/seeing-the-light-in-dark-times/,
Antje Scharenberg
[image: Act4Free Movement]
Countries Involved
Europe
Duration of Project
2017 - 2018
With the Support of
a collaborative initiative of the Network of European Foundations