The League of Human Rights

Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

VoxPublic

Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Liberty

Estonian Human Rights Centre

Centre for Peace Studies - Croatia

Society for Civil Rights

The Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies

VIA IURIS

Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

Human Rights Monitoring Institute

Associazione Antigone

Civil Rights Defenders

Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

Belgian League of Human Rights

Rights International Spain

The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania – the Helsinki Committee

Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

"Europe Day is an occasion to remind ourselves that what unites us is greater than what divides us. The EU gives people a way to come together across national, cultural and religious differences to pursue values we all share, like democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights" says our op-ed in EUObserver.

The primary purpose of the DSA is to check the power of Big Tech and make the internet a safer place for everyday users, claim Liberties' Eva Simon and Jonathan Day in their opinion piece in EurActiv.

In its report, the Berlin-based Civil Liberties Union for Europe said that countries such as Hungary, Poland or Slovenia had used the pandemic to strengthen their hold on power and limit criticism of the government.

A new report from the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, based in Germany, suggests that the pandemic has played an important part in weakening democracy across the continent.

“Beyond being a distraction from the task of vaccination, the pass could end up creating a two-tier society,” Israel Butler of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, a human rights watchdog, said about the EU Commission's vaccine pass plan.

“The recommendation is a good start, but the Commission should go further and implement concrete safeguards into EU law, similar to what it intends to do as a means to counter strategic lawsuits against journalists,” Eva Simon, senior advocacy officer at the Civil Liberties Union For Europe, said in a statement.