[2] ACE works to connect and represent half a million Europeans of Assyrian descent.

After the genocide of 1915 in then Ottoman Turkey and in search for safer place to live, some Assyrians fled to Europe, in southern France (Marseille and Toulouse).

It has even accelerated in recent years due to the general turmoil in the Middle East with all the risks it implies (kidnappings, ethnic cleansing and targeted killings).

The establishment of ACE was formally announced in the European parliament in Brussels on 22 April.

The organization is the European counterpart of the United States-based Assyrian Policy Institute, with whom the ACE regularly cooperates.