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Europe experiencing “dangerous rollback of civic freedoms”, warns damning new report in “wake-up call” to EU leaders
Rise of far-right accompanied by a deliberate strategy to delegitimise civil society, through smear campaigns, SLAPPs, and restrictive “foreign agents” legislation Right to protest increasingly under attack, with Palestine solidarity and environmental justice campaigners targeted Government ministers in several states question international human rights law Europe is experiencing a dangerous rollback of civic freedoms,…...
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April 2023: An EU foreign agents act would fatally undermine the Defence of Democracy package
The European Commission is set to publish its proposed Defence of Democracy package. In our response to the consultation, we made it clear that the package’s focus on ‘foreign interference’ risks...
EDITO: An EU foreign agents act would fatally undermine the Defence of Democracy package
The European Commission is set to publish its proposed Defence of Democracy package, following a short and limited Call for Evidence. In our response to the consultation, we made it clear that the...
ECF Annual Report 2022 – Out now!
2022 was nothing if not an eventful year. As we began to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, we were met immediately by another crisis: war came once…...
European House Budapest – An EU macro-regional civil strategy in the making
By European House Hungary Encouraged by the positive rections from various quarters to our innovative Shadow Report project, the decision to take the next steps…...
European Movement Italy – On the European elections and reform
By European Movement Italy The European Movement in Italy Supports the action of the European Parliament to go beyond the Treaty of Lisbon signed more than fifteen years ago. Supports its demands of...
Academia Cidada-Citizenship Academy – Knitting for climate justice
The Portuguese NGO, Academia Cidadã - Citizenship Academy, created the campaign Linha Vermelha - Red Line in 2016. At that time there were fifteen active contracts for potential oil and gas drilling...
Joint NGO Statement: EU Foreign Interference Law – Is Civil Society at Risk?
230 civil society organisations have come together to express concern and opposition to a proposed ‘foreign interference’ directive which would create a register of foreign funded organisations. This...
ECF Statement on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act
The EU Artificial Intelligence Act must safeguard Civic Space, Fundamental Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law Artificial intelligence and the EU AI legislation will have a significant impact on...
Support to LDH – Open letter to the President of the French Republic
To the President of the French Republic, On 5 April 2023, while speaking to the French National Assembly, your Minister of the Interior publicly questioned the continuation of state subsidies to the...