(European Civic Forum for Balkan Civic Practices) In the recent years, multiple attacks on civic space and citizens’ resistance to concentration of power showed that, although the methods might differ from one…
(Social Europe) In the latest contribution to our ‘Europe2025’ series, Donatella della Porta argues that it has become increasingly difficult for social movements to envision another Europe from below. Progressive social…
(OpenDemocracy) Despite pain, loss, disruption and constant threats, the movement is winning. Now that the LGBTQ movement in the United States has reached the half-century mark, what can activists learn…
(OECD) By Thomas Carothers, Director, and Saskia Brechenmacher, Associate Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace This blog marks Civil Society Days (4-7 June 2019), including the International Conference…
(European Centre for Non-for-Profit Law) Did you know that 140 governments have adopted counter-terrorism legislation since 2001? And that research has shown there is no evidence legal restrictions on civil society reduce…
(Translated from German - Rechtssicherheit für politische Willensbildung)The judgment in the ATTAC case by the [German] Federal Fiscal Court (BFH = Bundesfinanzhof) affects thousands of foundations (trusts) and associations. This judgment…
(ECNL) How do you have to plan and prepare to monitor an assembly? What do you need to observe when you are there? What do you do with the information you…
(Maecenata Institute) The global phenomenon of “closing” or “shrinking” space for civil society has been identified and increasingly analyzed since at least the beginning of the 2000s. In Europe, the focus…
(Maecenata Foundation) Civil society is one of the main arenas of the democratization. However, in recent years the political space of civil society has become narrower and does not contribute to…
(European Center for Non-for-profit Law) ECNL and its local partners are now piloting our new tool, the CSO Meter to support regular and consistent monitoring of civil society environment in the Eastern Partnership countries. Consisting of…