Article originally published on CoE website, 6 July 2020 - accessible here The Expert Council on NGO Law publishes its opinion on the recently adopted and planned measures that affect…
Some thoughts on the new Joint Ministerial Decision, regulating the registration of migration-related NGOs by HIAS Greece - 8 May 2020 Last week, the Expert Council on NGO Law of…
(Article originally written in Polish by Magdalena Chrzczonowicz on Oko.Press, 10.05.2020) “The Ministry of the Environment has undertaken work on revealing the financing of NGOs, not only environmental ones", announced…
In collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, ECNL has drafted a summary of her 2019 General Assembly…
This article was originally published on ECNL website - 23 January 2020, accessible here. Civil society’s right to privacy has been under attack CSOs’ right to privacy has been facing…
(Ekathimerini.com) Non-governmental organizations that work with refugees and migrants in Greece were given 10 days on Tuesday to register with the Citizen Protection Ministry, or risk being banned from operating…
In 2017, two legislations aiming at transposing EU directive 2015/849 (Fourth European Directive against Money Laundering) were passed by the Portuguese state. These new measures are on the one hand…
(Liberties on CIVICUS Monitor) A new central database is to be created by anti-money laundering authorities in Greece, according to media reports in November 2018. The initiative is led by the Supreme…
UPDATE 23 Jan. 2019: In Early December, the Constitutional Court declared that the draft law is partially unconstitutional. The law is back in the Parliament UPDATE 26 Nov. 2018: The law…
(Meijburg & Co) On December 21, 2018, the Minister for Legal Protection published the draft bill on the Civil Society Organizations Transparency Act. The proposal provides for, on the one hand, insight…