Justice and Consumers

The Commission has published a call for proposals for training national judges in EU competition law. The call is managed by DG COMP and addresses judges dealing with competition cases at national level. This also includes prosecutors, apprentice national judges and the staff of judges’ offices or national courts in countries that are eligible under the 2014 2020 Justice programme.

Infringements - Today, the European Commission decided to send a letter of formal notice to Hungary for its new law on foreign-funded NGOs adopted on 13 June.

Today, the European Commission decided to send a reasoned opinion to Hungary as regards the compatibility of the Higher Education Law as amended on 4 April 2017 with EU law.

Call for service contracts: Deadline: 19th May 2017

For the next three years the European Commission is undertaking a series of activities meant to empower the Civil Society within the Member States through capacity building and a series of trainings meant to strengthening its involvement in the monitoring of national Roma integration strategies.

Justice Programme

On 30 March 2017, the European Commission published the following calls for proposals for action grants under the 2017 annual work programme of the Justice Programme.

Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme

On 30 March 2017, the European Commission published the call for proposals for action grants under the 2017 annual work programme of the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.

Tomorrow, 25 November, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the European Commission is launching a year of focused actions, with 10 million euros in funding for Member States, local governments, relevant professionals and civil society organisations across Europe to intensify their actions and campaigns to combat violence against women.

Today the European Commission has published the report "The Business Case for Diversity in the Workplace: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity."

Today, the new rules on legal aid proposed by the Commission in 2013 cleared the final hurdle.