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Become a proud supporter of the FSFE and join us in defending software freedom from monopoly control: <a href="/donate/donate.html>">https://my.fsfe.org/donate</a>! </p> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> <div id="notifications"><div id="infobox"></div></div> <main><div id="content"> <h1 id="id-free-software-foundation-europe" class="hidden">Free Software Foundation Europe</h1> <div class="introduction"> <p> Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. </p> <p> Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software. These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press, and privacy. <a class="learn-more" href="/freesoftware/index.en.html">Learn more...</a> </p> </div> <div class="press"> <div class="column"><div class="row"> <div class="image news"><a href="/news/2024/news-20241121-01.en.html"><img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/ff/65/0496d4f8950eb6e14ad918ce3a90.jpg" alt="Legal and Policy Issues Devroom last year at FOSDEM. The picture shows four people, -three men and a woman-, sitting around a table on stage. In the background you can see a blackboard with a slide on it and in the foreground you can see the chairs from the seminar room with people sitting on them." title="Legal and Policy Issues Devroom last year at FOSDEM. The picture shows four people, -three men and a woman-, sitting around a table on stage. In the background you can see a blackboard with a slide on it and in the foreground you can see the chairs from the seminar room with people sitting on them."></a></div> <div class="text"> <h3><a href="/news/2024/news-20241121-01.en.html">FOSDEM 2025 Call for Participation: Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom</a></h3> <p class="tag">News Item</p> <p> We are excited to announce that the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom will be returning for FOSDEM 2025! Join this DevRoom at the biggest annual Free Software event in Europe. This is your opportunity to submit proposals for a talk or a panel about Free Software legal and policy topics. <a class="learn-more" href="/news/2024/news-20241121-01.en.html"></a></p> </div> </div></div> <div class="column"><div class="row"> <div class="image front-page"><a href="/news/podcast/episode-26.en.html"><img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/4e/49/406e60694ff974e1b572276f1475.png" alt="Software Freedom Podcast illustration: a blue gradient background with the three starts from the FSFE logo also in blue and the words Software Freedom Podcast. It also has in white the fsfe website url" title="Software Freedom Podcast illustration: a blue gradient background with the three starts from the FSFE logo also in blue and the words Software Freedom Podcast. It also has in white the fsfe website url"></a></div> <div class="text"> <h3><a href="/news/podcast/episode-26.en.html">SFP#26: Policy and EU: the need of long-term funding and the NGI case</a></h3> <p class="tag"></p> <p>Join this new episode of our Software Freedom podcast in which Bonnie Mehring and Alexander Sander discussing current topics affecting Free Software in the European Union. In this episode we focus on the 27 million euros cut of funding of the Next Generation Internet initiative (known as NGI). Alex and Bonnie shed some light on the history of this European project and share the newest developments in this case. <a class="learn-more" href="/news/podcast/episode-26.en.html"></a></p> </div> </div></div> <div class="column"><div class="row"> <div class="image news"><a href="/news/2024/news-20241113-01.en.html"><img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/17988a8d73e40b65f32cb1895c008a2b.png" alt="Illustration from the video about Public Money, Public Code! showing what looks like a public administration building with Free Software. There are files entering or leaving the building on the left side, the building looks modern and full of plants and you can see lines of code on its fachade. There are people walking around it" title="Illustration from the video about Public Money, Public Code! showing what looks like a public administration building with Free Software. There are files entering or leaving the building on the left side, the building looks modern and full of plants and you can see lines of code on its fachade. There are people walking around it"></a></div> <div class="text"> <h3><a href="/news/2024/news-20241113-01.en.html">EU consultation confirms demand: long-term funding for Free Software is needed</a></h3> <p class="tag">News Item</p> <p> The FSFE called on the community to participate in a consultation on the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and demanded long-term sustainable funding for Free Software after recent budget cuts. 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