The EU Charter for Fundamental Rights has untapped potential as a strategic tool to protect and advance a wide range of human rights across the EU. To boost its use, Liberties has developed a handbook on how the Charter can be used for litigation.

May’s edition of Democracy Drinks shed new light on the contents of the Defending Democracy Package. While the clarifications revealed that the Foreign Interference Directive isn’t only targeting NGOs, civil society is flummoxed by the proposed rules.

In copying the narrative spun by authoritarians, the Commission’s transparency plan risks undermining democracy — and it threatens the survival of NGOs.

Civil society is resisting new rules proposed by the EU to impose new reporting & registration restrictions on NGOs. But many are using the wrong argument. We’ve put together a guide for NGOs on how to frame their response and avoid the transparency trap.

The anticipated “Defence of Democracy package” is a new initiative to advance the European Commission’s goal to protect democracy within the EU. However, the concrete measures envisaged are at odds with its goal, because they risk harming NGOs.