EUROPE

‘All critical voices are repressed under the pretext of combating disinformation’

The Netherlands: climate action faces backlash

Climate protesters criminalised as anti-environmental politics rises

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘People are beginning to realise that we need real and systemic change’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

France: pensions deadlock puts democracy under strain

Security force violence raises renewed questions about impunity

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘The criminalisation of solidarity has had a chilling effect’

Greece: humanitarian action under attack

Government is repressing the rights of migrants and refugees – and the civil society that defends them

Rising repression in the UK

Crackdowns on protest rights and vilification of asylum-seekers alarming signs of a longstanding democracy’s authoritarian creep

Moldova: a crisis of Russia’s making

Energy crunch and pro-Russia protests pose biggest post-independence test for democracy

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘There are attempts to replace the pro-European government with a pro-Kremlin puppet regime’

‘There is a pro-democracy civil society that opposes the war and advocates for democratic reforms’