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Hungary's Restrictive Legislation on Financing NGOs Does Not Comply With EU Law: European Court of Justice

June 18, 2020 • by Linda Ravo, LibertiesEU

The Court of Justice rules against Orban's 2017 law aimed at shutting Hungary's citizens out of their democracy by discrediting and defunding rights and democracy activists. The case teaches the EU 3 lessons to protect our democracies from authoritarians.
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- HCLU
- TASZ
- rule of law
- freedom of NGOs
Slovenia: New Government Targeting NGOs and the Media

April 21, 2020 • by Brankica Petković, The Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies

In the first month of the third government led by SDS and Janez Janša, the Government Communication Office took a central role in targeting the usual suspects of the ruling party: Non-governmental organisations, the media and journalists.
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Germany: Outdated Law Risks Strangling Civic Activism

October 25, 2019 • by Jascha Galaski, LibertiesEU

The Berlin tax office withdraws the charitable status of a German campaigning organization. By doing so, it makes it harder for citizens to get their views to their politicians.
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U.S. Secretary of State Meets Hungarian Civil Society Leaders

February 12, 2019 • by Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

In a move that sends a clear and important message to Orban’s regime, the U.S. secretary of state requested a meeting with Hungarian human rights defenders.
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European Parliament Votes to Better Protect Freedoms, But Council Yet to Agree

January 17, 2019 • by Israel Butler, LibertiesEU

MEPs just voted on two legislative proposals that could see the EU doing more to protect our rights against encroaching authoritarians. They're both based on ideas outlined by Liberties. Here's what the votes mean and what happens next.
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Croatian Government Called on to stop Attacking Civil Society

November 08, 2018 • by Lovorka Šošić, Centre for Peace Studies - Croatia

Encouraged by the verdict issued to the Are You Syrious volunteer, Platform 112 has expressed concern over long-term pressure from the Ministry of the Interior towards activists, volunteers and all those who support refugees.
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Storm Brewing Over Plan to Cut Funding for Czech NGOs

August 23, 2018 • by The League of Human Rights

Coalition partners are at loggerheads over a new plan to cut public funding for NGOs by billions of crowns.
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Freedoms Fund: The EU Commission's Half-Hearted Plans to Support Civil Society Groups

May 31, 2018 • by György Folk, LibertiesEU

The Commission paid considerable lip service to better supporting rights and democracy groups in the next EU budget. But its proposed funding programme falls short on every count.
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Some Boyfriends Ask Too Much. So Do Some Governments

May 14, 2018 • by Orsolya Reich, LibertiesEU

Governments' oft-cited argument that they "only want civil society organisations to operate in a transparent manner" is false and misleading.
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Find Out Why We Need a Freedoms Fund

April 27, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

If you want to find out more about the problems rights and democracy groups are facing and why we need a new freedoms fund, check out these explainers and articles.
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