We are taking several actions to ensure that the next EU Budget fully benefits persons with disabilities, including:

• Analysing all aspects of the budget from the point of view of persons with disabilities

• Develop common position of the European Disability Movement to outline our priorities and expectations in relation to EU funding.

• Meeting with key EU decision makers to explain our priorities to them.

• Cooperation with our partners. In this way we speak with a louder voice- we also ensure that wider civil society networks understand an incorporate the concerns of persons with disabilities.
• Raising awareness of the reasons for, and the importance of, including persons with disabilities in the EU budget.
   

Statements and actions taken

• Joint Position paper on the European Commission proposal for the Instrument for Pre-Accession III in the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework together with  Hopes and Homes for Children, Inclusion Europe, Lumos and Unicef

• We and the International Disability and Development Consortium published a communication on the MultiAnnual Financial Framework

• We sent a joint letter to Members of the European Parliament regarding the Connecting Europe Facility, which funds European transport, energy and digital infrastructure. The letter was sent together with AGE Platform Europe, EPF, European Passengers’ Federation and CER, the Community of European Railway and infrastructure companies.

• We joined  a common statement of Civil Society Europe on the future Multiannual Financial Framework, to promote an EU budget that is positive for civil society.
   
• We are involved in several taskforces with Civil Society Europe, Social Platform and other NGOs.

As a member of the European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care:

• The Group presented a position paper on the funding of the European Union post 2020.
• The Group presented First reactions to the proposed regulations for the European Social Fund+, the European Regional Development Fund and the Common Provisions Regulation for the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework

Cohesion & Values

• In July 2018, we published our first assessment and recommendations to the European Social Fund Plus proposal.
   

• In July 2018, we published our first assessment and recommendations to the European Regional Development Fund proposal.
   
• Yannis Vardakastanis authored the article "European Funds for all - Investing in people" for the Panorama Magazine, a European Commission's magazine on Cohesion Policy.
   
• We hosted a joint Conference with ENIL and Center for Independent Living Sofia on Investing for Independent Living.
   
• We authored a Open letter with other Antidiscrimination networks welcoming the Rights and Values Programme.
   
• We adopted a Resolution on the European Cohesion Policy post-2020 at EDF Annual General Assembly 2018 (PDF).
   
• Before the official announcement, EDF joined other civil society organisations for a "Joint statement on EU Funds for equality between men and women, accessibility for persons with disabilities and non-discrimination".
   
• In 2017, we met with Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Crețu where we discussed prioritites for the EU Budget Post-2020.