europecv – An unofficial LaTeX class for European curricula vitae

Version 2026.10.14 (2026-10-14)

europecv is an unofficial LaTeX implementation of the standard model for curricula vitae (the Europass CV) as recommended by the European Commission. Although primarily intended for users in the European Union, the class can be used for any kind of curriculum vitae (possibly with the options notitle, nobranding and nologo).

The class supports 27 languages (Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish), the self-assessment table of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), and cross-referenced lists of publications, projects and awards. It works with pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.

• CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/europecv
• Development and bug reports: https://github.com/gsilano/EuropeCV

Usage

A minimal curriculum vitae:

\documentclass[helvetica,narrow]{europecv}
\ecvname{Surname, Name}
\begin{document}
\begin{europecv}
\ecvpersonalinfo
\section{Work experience}
\ecvitem{2020 -- today}{Job description}
\end{europecv}
\end{document}

The full documentation is in europecv.pdf. Ready-to-use templates are in the templates folder and further examples in the examples folder.

Contents of the package

File(s)	Description
europecv.cls	The document class
ecv*.def	Language definition files (ecven.def is English, ecvit.def Italian, ...)
europasslogo.{eps,pdf}	Europass logo (unofficial vector version)
EuropeFlag*.{eps,pdf}	Flags of the European Union
europecv.tex, europecv.pdf	Documentation (source and PDF)
examples/	Examples (minimal CV, Bulgarian, Greek, Maltese, ...)
templates/	Templates (standard, academic, and with biblatex/biber)
CHANGELOG.rst	History of changes
CONTRIBUTING.md	How to contribute
LICENSE	The LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c

Installation

europecv is part of TeX Live and MiKTeX: use the package manager of your TeX distribution to install or update it.

To install it manually, copy europecv.cls, the ecv*.def files, and the logo and flag images (europasslogo.* and EuropeFlag*.*) into a directory searched by TeX, e.g. TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/europecv/, and the documentation into TEXMFHOME/doc/latex/europecv/. Alternatively, simply put these files in the same directory as your CV.

Requirements

The class needs a LaTeX kernel released on 2020-10-01 or later. It loads the array, longtable, fancyhdr, etoolbox, graphicx and hyperref packages and, depending on the options, inputenc, totpages, booktabs and combelow. All of them are part of any TeX distribution.

License

Copyright (C) Nicola Vitacolonna (original author)
Copyright (C) 2018-2026 Giuseppe Silano and the EuropeCV contributors

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2008 or later.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. The Current Maintainer of this work is Giuseppe Silano.

The Europass logo and the flags are distributed for convenience only: see the "Disclaimer" section of the documentation.

Maintainer

This project is maintained by Giuseppe Silano. Feel free to reach out via his website for contributions, questions, or bug reports. The preferred way to report bugs and propose changes is the GitHub repository.

Translations are written by volunteers: if you find a wrong translation, please correct the corresponding ecv*.def file and open a pull request. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the details.

Building and releasing (maintainers)

The repository contains a Makefile:

• make doc builds the documentation;
• make check builds the documentation, the examples and the templates, and compiles a test CV with every language option and with pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX;
• make ctan creates build/europecv.zip, ready for the CTAN upload form. The archive is created with git archive from the committed files, so that files not meant for CTAN (hidden files, the Makefile, the tests, ...) are excluded through the export-ignore attributes in .gitattributes.

Before a release, update the date and version in europecv.cls (\ProvidesClass), in the ecv*.def files that changed (\ProvidesFile), in europecv.tex (\date), in this file and in CHANGELOG.rst, then rebuild europecv.pdf. make ctancheck verifies that all these versions agree and that the CTAN archive follows the CTAN rules.

The GitHub workflows in .github/workflows run automatically:

• build.yml compiles the documentation, the examples, the templates and all the language options on every push and pull request;
• ctan.yml builds and checks the CTAN archive (including CTAN's pkgcheck); pushing a tag named after the version (e.g. v2026.10.14) also creates a GitHub release with europecv.zip attached, ready for the CTAN upload;
• links.yml looks for dead links in the documentation once a month;
• stale.yml and welcome.yml manage stale issues and greet new contributors.

CTAN contact

All CTAN-related correspondence should be directed in English to ctan (at) ctan (dot) org, the common email address of all "CTAN people", rather than to an individual maintainer. Emails must be in plain text only (HTML is filtered out). Uploads must be done via the CTAN upload form, not by email. Please avoid sending large attachments to the CTAN address.