Eurodiaconia – A European federation of 45 social and health care organisations founded in the Christian faith and promoting social justice.

In the context of the European Semester cycle, the European Commission has now published its Country-Specific Recommendations for 2017 (CSRs). Each…

Between the 5th and 12th November 2017, our member in Sweden, Svenska Kyrkan (the Church of Sweden) is organising a…

On 3-4 May, 18 representatives from Eurodiaconia member organisations gathered in Brussels to discuss the issue of integration of third…

How effective do you believe is EU policy guidance to national governments to foster and encourage a better integration of EU mobile citizens and Third Country Nationals?*
- Essential: the European Commission and European Parliament play a key role in guiding National Member States to establish successful policies for integration.
- Very valuable: the European Commission and European Parliament play an important role in facilitating exchange of good practices between member states, and in doing so they assist Member States to establish efficient integration policies.
- Relatively useful: the European Commission and European Parliament play a role in encouraging Member States to draw-up integration policies, but these efforts are have a limited impact and integration polices must be based on the local and national context.

To which extend do you think the co-finance rule in EU-funding leads to a bigger sense of ownership in European projects?

To a great extent because investing your own organisation’s money makes you manage a project more responsibly.

27%

It can help to create the sense of ownership, but serious project managers should always manage everyone’s money responsibly.

53%

It is an unnecessary obstacle in order to set up important social projects, which are already hard enough to finance.

20%