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The European Union and its member states renewed their commitments to uphold and protect rights in 2023, but they have persistently failed to translate

The European Union and its member states renewed their commitments to uphold and protect rights in 2023, but they have persistently failed to translate these commitments into practice, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2024.

Parliament calls for a coordinated strategy to increase the EU’s resilience to foreign interference and information manipulation and protect the 2024 European elections .

The EU Parliament is calling for a coordinated strategy to increase the EUs resilience to foreign interference and information manipulation and to protect the 2024 European elections. Foreign

JOINT STATEMENT EU Foreign Interference Law: Is Civil Society at Risk? Why we are against an EU FARA law Civil Society Europe is bringing together…

Civil society groups have urged the European Commission not to table new rules that would require NGOs to disclose if their funding comes from outside the EU, in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday (3 May). 

Journalists are facing unprecedented levels of insecurity, harassment and intimidation. It is up to institutions both national and international to stand behind press freedom.

Political elites in the EU advancing Gazprom’s agenda and Hungary’s susceptibility to Russian intelligence activities are among many examples named in the new report.

Today, members of the European Parliament special committee on foreign interference and disinformation (INGE) - set up on the initiative of the S&D Group in 2020 -

The European University Association has urged the European Commission to be mindful of not letting the notion of protection stand in the way of dialogue between a multitude of actors, both within European societies and globally.