
Webinar “Diaspora-friendly media policy and practice”
ETTW invites expat organisations, policymakers and media professionals to a webinar on diaspora-friendly media policy and practice. About this event WHY At least 18 million Europeans live outside their country of origin. They cherish European rights and freedoms and are most directly affected when those are restricted or endangered.Yet, theirRead More

Europeans Throughout the World #standwithukraine
On this dark day for democracy and rules-based international order on the European continent, we, Europeans Throughout the World: – express solidarity with Ukraine and its people across the world, and among them over one million Ukrainians residing in the #EuropeanUnion whose families and close ones in Ukraine are underRead More

Let’s Build 2022 together!
It has been two years since the world entered the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions of people have lost their lives, hundreds of millions of others have been seriously ill or remain ill. An unprecedented economic crisis ensued, triggering poverty and despair around the globe. Borders between countries closed. As European mobileRead More

ETTW programme for the first six months of 2022
The first board meeting of 2022 is scheduled to take place – virtually, of course – on February 15. The theme of the meeting will be a follow-up to the webinar last year on how to better engage the European diaspora – politically, culturally, and more practically – in theRead More

Virtual workshop on The Democratic Participation of Older Mobile EU Citizens
For the 2021 European Week of Regions and Cities, DG JUST unit D3 is organising and moderating a workshop on older mobile citizens, which will discuss their inclusion and participation in democratic processes, both in their country of origin and in their host country. Our four speakers will provide practical insights and shareRead More

ETTW News September 2021
Involving and engaging expatriates in the political and cultural life of their countries of origin. Based on several member associations’ and partners’ practical experiences with campaigning to engage diasporas in the political and cultural life in their home countries, ETTW set up a series of web discussions on that subjectRead More

In meeting with MEPs, ELAS and ETTW are recalling the importance of filling the notion of EU citizenship with concrete, practical rights
Latvian NGO alliance has launched consultations with Latvian MEPs about forthcoming EU legislative initiatives. Today, issues related to the alignment of political advertising rules and European voting rights were discussed with MEP Roberts Zīle, MEP Andris Ameriks, and parliamentary assistants of other Latvian MEPs. On behalf of ELA as aRead More