Cover Europe & Central Asia for @CIVICUSMonitor, views my own
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Tara Petrović retweeted
🚨 The French Govt is expected at any moment to unveil a deeply troubling "entryism" bill.
By expanding powers dissolve NGOs by decree, this upcoming legislation risks further suffocating an already shrinking civic space in France.
My latest for @hrw:
hrw.org/news/2026/07/10/prop…
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Which of the teams playing at the #Worldcup today do the best job of respecting people's rights to organise, take action and speak out?
🇪🇸#Spain v 🇨🇻#CapeVerde
🇧🇪#Belgium v 🇪🇬#Egypt
🇸🇦#SaudiArabia v 🇺🇾#Uruguay
🇮🇷#Iran v 🇳🇿#NewZealand
(Hint⬇️😉)
web.civicus.org/WorldCup
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🏟️⚽️The majority of #WorldCup countries are still missing the OPEN goal. See how their civic space scores compare:
web.civicus.org/WorldCup
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Last year, watchdogs identified a deterioration of democratic space in Italy, Germany, and France.
Using so-called emergency security measures, the EU’s leading states are squashing the right to dissent. jacobin.com/2026/05/europe-e…
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Europe’s protest landscape is being transformed by force. Detentions and excessive force show how authorities are cracking down on the right to protest.
A closer look at trends in our latest ratings report 🔴🟡🟢web.civicus.org/ECA2025
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#Europa presume de democracia, pero en 2025 fue el principal escenario de la represión contra la solidaridad con el pueblo palestino.
Más del 60% de las violaciones documentadas por el @CIVICUSMonitor ocurrieron en este continente #PeoplePower2025
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🇬🇪#Georgia downgraded to ‘Repressed’ in new ratings report:
🟠Draconian protest laws
🟠Controls on foreign funded NGOs & media
🟠Opposition leaders detained
Press Release (#PeoplePower2025): web.civicus.org/GeorgiaRatin…
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🇷🇸#Serbia downgraded to ‘Repressed’ in new ratings report:
🟠Crackdown on student-led protests with mass detentions
🟠Excessive force, including use of sonic weapons
🟠Judicial harassment and prosecutions of activists
Press Release (#PeoplePower2025): web.civicus.org/SerbiaRating
Tara Petrović retweeted
🇩🇪#Germany downgraded to 'Obstructed':
🟡Berlin police filed nearly 9,000 criminal charges linked to pro-Palestinian protests
🟡Police brutality & language bans at demonstrations
🟡Raids & surveillance of NGOs critical of Israel
Press release: web.civicus.org/GermanyRatin…
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🇮🇹#Italy downgraded to 'Obstructed' in ratings report:
🟡“Anti-Gandhi” security law imposes harsh penalties for protests
🟡Expanded police powers & surveillance
🟡 Govt critics hit with military-grade spyware
Press release (#PeoplePower2025): web.civicus.org/ItalyRating
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🇨🇭#Switzerland downgraded to 'Narrowed' in new ratings report:
🟢Peaceful protests met with tear gas & rubber bullets
🟢Surveillance of climate activists
🟢Press freedom under strain with raids & deportations
Press release (#PeoplePower2025): web.civicus.org/SwitzerlandR…
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🇫🇷#France downgraded to 'Obstructed' in ratings report:
🟡Peaceful protests met with tear gas & mass arrests
🟡NGOs dissolved under anti-separatism law
🟡Journalists & activists face harassment & harsh sentences
Press Release (#PeoplePower2025): web.civicus.org/FranceRating
Tara Petrović retweeted
In #Europe & #CentralAsia a look at civic freedoms:
Out of 54 countries:
🟢35 countries rated open or narrowed
🟡8 rated obstructed
🟠5 rated repressed
🔴6 rated closed
⬇️ #France #Georgia #Germany #Italy #Serbia #Switzerland
#PeoplePower2025 report: web.civicus.org/ECA2025
i just don't know that's the case in albania. berisha's party, which tried hard to attach itself to trump and ride the global anti-DEI & anti-gender wave, got trounced in the election. no real reason to think the silent majority is with them (or cares) and this law will backfire
on the flip side to your main point, i think backlash from actors trying to import US culture war grievances is often given too much weight as a genuine expression of deeply held societal attitudes. no way to see how people "really" feel when we take away the foreign influence
english-language coverage missed a lot. i don't speak albanian, but from a machine translation there's nothing radical in the law apart from defining gender as socially constructed in line with the istanbul convention. the opposition wanted it defined as biological and immutable
there's no third gender. the uproar was over a formulation defining gender as having an "inclusive meaning", which berisha's conservative opposition party (which boasted of having its programme written by the heritage foundation) used to push false narratives about 70 genders