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New report documents continued decline in civic freedoms across Europe, with Brussels playing an ever-greater role
Unfounded attacks on NGO funding growing in EU, national parliaments Civil society increasingly cast as “foreign agents” New anti-protest legislation proposed in 7 EU countries Civil society continued to come under attack in 2025, with EU policies now playing a key role, according to a leading European NGO. The report, written by the European Civic Forum…...
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Bündnis Für Gemeinnützigkeit: Putting Austrian non-profit legislation forward – A joint
For the first time, the Austrian government invited representatives of Austrian non-profit and voluntary organisations to discuss framework conditions and necessary legislative changes for the sector...
MEPs vote to ensure AI Act better protects fundamental rights and civic space
Today, the LIBE and IMCO Committees of the European Parliament voted on the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, making several amendments to ensure fundamental rights, the rule of law and civic space are...
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...