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FAFCE Board Resolution | Families are the front line in the pandemic
FAFCE Board Resolution Families are the front line in the pandemic Online Board Meeting, 6 May 2020 In the context of the current pandemic, families are in the front line. The dislocation of the social fabric is now reduced
Press Release | FAFCE welcomes the EESC Opinion on Demographic challenges
Press Release FAFCE welcomes the EESC Opinion on Demographic challenges Brussels, 12 May 2020 FAFCE welcomes the Exploratory opinion on "Demographic challenges in the EU in light of economic inequalities and development disparities" adopted by the European Economic and
Press Release | Families need a more effective support
Press Release Families need a more effective support Brussels, 4 May 2020 "Families and enterprises must be helped together: they go hand in hand and everyone, in the current situation, should recognise this evidence"- says Vincenzo Bassi, President of
Newsletter | Happy Easter 🌸
Rome, Easter 2020 European unity becomes noticeable only through the solidarity it can demonstrate, whether within our communities or between European Institutions and Member States. In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, with our joint Press Release, last month, we
FAFCE Members: Initiatives to help families during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown
France – CNAFC The French National Confederation of Catholic Family Associations (CNAFC) publishes every week a newsletter with news and initiatives to help Catholic families during the time of quarantine. The Confederation even created a Facebook group called "Esprit de famille"
Vatican Meetings
Vatican City (10 March) - Our President, Vincenzo Bassi, together with our Secretary General, Nicola Speranza, spent a day full of meetings where they visited different Holy See officials whose mandate is related to FAFCE’s field of work. FAFCE President
Focus on demographic challenges: FAFCE’s interventions to the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
Brussels (14-15 January) – In the context of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which has made the demographic challenge one of the priorities of its semester (January-July 2020), FAFCE intervened in different European institutions to
Meeting with Dubravka Suica, European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography
Brussels (25 February 2020) - Our President, Vincenzo Bassi, and our Secretary General, Nicola Speranza, met with Vice-President Dubravka Šuica and her team to present FAFCE’s proposals regarding her portfolio on Demography and Democracy. They discussed about demographic trends, family-friendly
Press Release | Family Associations ask for more solidarity in Europe
Brussels, 18 March 2020 No European family should feel to be left alone by the institutions, in a moment where fear and disorientation seem to prevail, we wish to reaffirm the fundamental importance of the family: the corona-virus
Press Release | Let’s restart from the family
Paris - Rome, 16 March 2020 “It is not good for man to be alone”. In this context of the pandemic, it is indeed loneliness which risks being spread. Family remains as the only remedy. Over the past


