Children who walk or cycle to school in Berlin will benefit from a newly-passed pedestrian law in the city designed to shift the priority away from cars and towards the interests of vulnerable road users.Read more
Participation in decision-making processes, quality education, internet access and climate change make up the chief concerns for children and young people throughout Africa and Europe.Read more
Many European cities’ usually-busy streets will be car-free – and with it child-friendly – over the next few days as part of European Mobility Week.Read more
Air pollution and heatwaves are a factor in one in eight of all deaths in Europe, many of them children who are particularly vulnerable to environmental factors.
The European Environment Agency (EEA), in a report, says...Read more
European Union leaders have been told they must initiate a rescue plan now to help pull vulnerable children out of poverty.
The call has come from hundreds of organisations and individuals acting under the umbrella of...Read more
Portugal and Finland have together taken in a further 49 unaccompanied migrant children from Greece as part of a European Commission and United Nations partner agencies’ relocation scheme.Read more
We can only imagine what it must be like, as teenage sisters, to have your family ripped apart and be left to rely on each other to make ends meet, while facing an ever-present threat...Read more
Four European cities have been recognised as ‘powerful examples’ of how cities can be made safer for pedestrians and cyclists, including several innovations designed specifically for children.Read more
Ireland will receive almost €3.27 million Euros from the EU’s school fruit, vegetables and milk scheme over the coming year, irrespective of enforced school closures across the continent because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The scheme, which...Read more
Amsterdam’s efforts to create a healthier city for children and young people have earned it the European Health Award for 2019.
Working on the year’s theme of prevention and reduction of obesity in children and adolescents,...Read more
The new leadership of the European Union has met with a group of child rights organisations as they look to develop and consolidate child protection and participation policies.
A total of six child rights non-governmental organisations...Read more
A new European Commission is up and running. The UK’s departure from the EU now is cast in stone. As 2019 draws to a close, Eurochild, the child advocacy network, reflects on where the European...Read more
‘The protection of children must be at the heart of the work of the new European Commission’.
Those were the words of David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament, as he opened a special ceremony marking...Read more
