(Polish Helsinki Committee) Since the beginning of 2016 the civil society sector has faced numerous challenges detrimental to its works that has and limited its ability to perform its role of…
Three years after the Parliament approved the reform of the third sector (Legge delega 106/2016), the law remains inactive. The law was passed in May 2016 after a participated consultation…
(Radio Praha - 15/04/2019) The Czech Ministry of the Interior has reduced by over one-quarter its funding for non-governmental organisations focused on preventing corruption. The money has been diverted into an…
UPDATE 28 Febbraio 2019: at the end of January, the IRES was changed back to 12%: https://www.italiaoggi.it/news/l-ires-sul-no-profit-torna-al-12-2331850 UPDATE: the measure was approved by the Parliament and came into force on 1st…
On 21 February, the Italian Think tank Centro Studi Politici e Strategici Machiavelli presented to the press room of the Chamber of Deputies a report called “NGOs and transparency -…
(Human Rights Watch) – The Polish government is targeting women’s rights activists and organizations, putting women’s rights and safety at risk, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. More than…
(Liberties / CIVICUS Monitor) ANO, the party of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, is aiming to cut three billion crowns (approximately 135 million USD) from annual state payments to non-profit organisations. That…
(The European Civic Forum on CIVICUS Monitor) Expression During an interview on the public broadcaster ORF in early July, the Minister of Interior Herbert Kickl (from the far-right FPO party)…
(Andrei Pop from the Civil Society Development Foundation on the Balkan Civil Society Development Network) The article looks into the shapes of a rapidly closing civic space in the Romanian society, especially…