Here you will see news from Europe, from civil society, from research, highlighting emerging trends from local to international level relevant for families of today.
COFACE member organisation UNAF - Unión de Asociaciones Familiares has developed a practical guide to support families in preventing the excessive or harmful use of technology.
The European Parliament established the Interest Group on Civil Society Organisations in October 2025. It brings together Members of the European Parliament from across political groups.
We are delighted to welcome Jasmin to the COFACE network. Since 2018, her mission has been to create movement-friendly learning environments that foster inclusion and social equity.
Fostering inclusive learning environments: Strategies for Supporting Parenting Students in Higher Education. This is the name of an Erasmus+ project which aimed to reduce barriers to education for students with childcare responsibilities. They published a TOOLBOX with tools to help education institutions create inclusive learning environments for young parents studying in higher education.
On Thursday, 12 February 2026, the European Parliament adopted its position on the upcoming EU Anti-Poverty Strategy of the European Commission. The report sends a strong political signal to the Commission: the first-ever EU Anti-Poverty Strategy must be ambitious, comprehensive, and firmly grounded in human rights.
Families are often judged before they are supported. When difficulties arise, the question is rarely what does this family need? but rather what went wrong? Child–family separation is still too often treated as an inevitable solution, when in many cases it is the outcome of poverty, isolation, migration or lack of accessible support.
COFACE Families Europe submitted its response to the European Commission open consultation on enhancing the strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities up to 2030. Among our priorities, we call for the adoption of a strong family dimension in the new phase of the strategy through concrete actions; the enhancement of the monitoring and implementation mechanisms for disability policies and legislations that have a family dimension.
The European Network for Binational-Bicultural Couples and Families (ENB) has sent an Open Letter to Members of European Parliament. The letter highlighs urgent and recurring issues, and calls for action.
On 18 November 2025, the French National Assembly voted in favour of creating a new birth leave as part of the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) for 2026. The measure marks an important step forward for families in France and a major advocacy success for UNAF (Union nationale des associations familiales), a member organisation of COFACE Families Europe, which has been calling for this reform for more than ten years.
