(Political Capital, 5 January 2021) Péter Krekó was interviewed by Politico about the challenges of anti-vaccination attitudes in Hungary late last year. Maintaining a distinctly pro-vaccination tone, Krekó analyzed the risk…
Report on Slovenian civic space produced by the European Civic Forum for CIVICUS monitor. Background On 13th March 2020, only one day after the announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic in…
Update: On December 2, 2020, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced in a tweet that the Council of Ministers had notified the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) that it was being…
Instead of considering the NGO sector as a valuable collaborator, the state, faced with criticism, most often conducts campaigns of appeasement, attacks and pressure on these independent organizations. At a panel discussion…
Report originally published in French by La Coalition. The analysis of 100 cases of associations sanctioned after critical collective action by public authorities traces the contours of repressed citizenship. In…
UPDATE - 9 September 2020: Polish ministers propose law making NGOs declare foreign funding and creating public register Extract from an article written by Juliette Bretan, published on Notes from Poland…
This article written by the European Civic Forum and originally published on Civicus Monitor, 14 February 2020 - accessible here Campaign successful in challenging ‘domestic extremism’ label In the last ten years,…
Tensions on the Greek islands have been skyrocketing in the last month following an aggressive government-led smear campaign against volunteers and NGOs helping migrants and refugees. The government has accused…
Over sixty Bulgarian NGOs alert of a new wave of attacks against civil society organizations taking place in Bulgaria. Since early 2018, the Bulgarian democratic civil society has experienced an…
In July 2019, we interviewed Silver Tambur from Kõigi Eesti, a group of people living in Estonia who successfully mobilised thousands online and offline to send a strong message of…