Baltic Sea Region NGO forum 2019
The annual Baltic Sea NGO Forum, attended by participants from all of the Baltic Sea region countries, is the major joint event organized by the Baltic Sea NGO Network. The…
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6 March 2019
GERMANY: Regulating the political activisty of civil society – the case of ATTAC
UPDATE 13/03/2019: The coalition "Rechtssicherheit für politische Willensbildung" (Translated: Legal certainty for political advocacy), bringing together over 80 CSOs to advocate for a change of the charity legislation, comments on the ruling:…
3 March 2019
GERMANY: Draft “Trade Secret Protection Act” in Germany threatens whistleblowers and press freedom
(European Centre for Press and Media Freedom) On Friday, 15. February 2019, the German Parliament will debate motions by the Greens and Die Linke to amend the draft Law to protect trade secrets…
16 February 2019
Regulating Political Activity of Civil Society: a comparative analysis of regulation of civil society organisations’ “political activity” and international funding – Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Finland
(CIVICUS and Irish Council for Civil Liberties) Ireland has a vibrant and diverse civil society. An estimated 29,000 civil society organisations (CSOs), ranging from informal local non-profit groups to formally-registered national…
11 October 2018
GERMANY: Journalists facing conflict with emergency responders over filming
(Index on censorship) “What happened is that I stumbled across something which made the police look bad.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=inBCgA2hPm8 Video footage shot by Thomas Kraus shows police violently detaining journalist Marvin Oppong.…
9 August 2018
GERMANY: Bavaria passes bill expanding police powers despite civil society opposition
On 15 May, the Bavarian parliament passed a controversial Police Task Bill (PAG) granting police new powers to act without “concrete suspicion”. The law will lower the threshold for surveillance…
17 May 2018
GERMANY: The case of ATTAC in light of globally closing civic spaces
(Centre for Strategic and International Studies - 17 July 2017) A non-governmental organization (NGO) that is critical of the government’s actions in the country at hand receives a letter from the local…
17 July 2017