In our 🆕 newsletter, you find the latest on:

➰Loopholes in the #AIAct &#CoE #AI Convention;

🇪🇺 #DefenceofDemocracy Directive and the effect of vague foreign interference laws in #Georgia #RepublikaSrpska;

🌐Global Nonprofits Guide 2.0 and more.

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https://mailchi.mp/908226c7a2c9/technology-and-civic-space-nov-5449476?e=6e193cc95b

🆕 ECNL position paper on the proposed #EU foreign interest representation directive is out now!
#DOD #DefenceofDemocracy

Read why we think the proposal lacks clarity and may disproportionately impact CSOs’ activities, #FreedomOfExpression, #association & #privacy:
https://ecnl.org/publications/eu-defence-democracy-package-proposal-directive-lacks-clarity-and-legal-certainty-key

❗ If you are a #CSO with diverse funding, the #DefenceOfDemocracy package may force you into a "foreign interest representative" registry. Meanwhile, professional lobbyists can easily evade these rules.

Together with The Good Lobby we provided detailed feedback on the 🇪🇺 DoD.

Read the complete submission here ▶️
https://ecnl.org/news/defending-democracy-clarity

Overwhelming majority understands the need to support #civilsociety organisations like #DefendDemocracy beyond project-related grants.

EU's upcoming #DefenceOfDemocracy package is an opportunity to fix a broken system.

We need to be able to hire and retain #talent and to protect them accordingly and we need to be able to invest more time in #advocacy to spur systemic change.

Let’s hope we can focus more on our work - less on raising funds for it.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/demokratie-gefaehrdet-umfrage-deutschland-100.html

Thank you EU Parliament for hearing our plea!

To #DefendDemocracy, EU Parliament urges coordinated EU strategy & adequate funding.

EU needs effective #DefenceOfDemocracy package & legislation to counter #HybridThreats.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230524IPR91908/foreign-interference-meps-call-for-urgent-protection-of-2024-european-elections

#DefendDemocracy's recommendations for EU Commission's #DefenceOfDemocracy package:

* Use a coherent & comprehensive approach to foreign interference;

* Invest in whole-of-society resilience to #HybridThreats to democracy.

Find our input in the chapter on 'Foreign interference':

https://epd.eu/2023/03/30/joint-civil-society-and-democracy-organisations-priorities-for-the-defence-of-democracy-package/

For an adequate '#DefenceOfDemocracy' package, the EU needs to address the full foreign toolbox of #HybridThreats to #democracy coherently.

Not cherry-pick just a few of them.

Our letter to the @EU_Commission

#DefendDemocracy #HybridThreats

https://defenddemocracy.eu/letter-on-defence-of-democracy/

An excellent meeting with 🇫🇷 State Secretary for 🇪🇺 Affairs @LaurenceBoone. @EU_Commission welcomes the ideas expressed in the Joint DE-FR Declaration concerning possible institutional reforms. We discussed #DefenceOfDemocracy package & #DemographyEU.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/dubravkasuica/status/1628463629564624897

Yesterday I spoke at @DefendDemocracy about the role of disinformation on social media leading up to the US & Brazil insurrections. 1/
RT @DefendDemocracy: Kicking off 2023 with a great exchange!

EU Parliamentarian @kimvsparrentak on role of #BigTech in US & Brazil insurrections, on EU's #DigitalServicesAct & on EU's upcoming #DefenceOfDemocracy package.

See you in one of our 12 @DemocracyDrinks cities!

☕️ https://t.co/mYPgLXJLfU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kimvsparrentak/status/1613199597685334025