Civic Space Report 2024

Ahead of the EU elections, we published our Civic Space Report 2024.

The report finds that overall, civic freedoms have deteriorated in Europe during the last five years. After taking office in 2019, the European Commission leadership committed to a “new push for European Democracy”.

However, while the Commission has introduced a range of important measures to boost democracy, the report finds that space for civil society has continued to shrink, indicating that the EU must do more, better and differently to support and protect civil society.

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The report is made up of a horizontal, EU-wide analysis, written by ECF, 15 country chapters and one regional Western Balkans analysis written by ECF members and partners on the ground, and one cross-cutting chapter on the restrictions on protests in solidarity with the Palestinian people.