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Hate, Euroscepticism, Citizenship: The Youth Connection. Comparative Report on Baltics and Balkan Countries

The research analyzes hate discourses and good practices of European and national standards, targets, actors, definitions, and anti-discrimination policies. It studies the emergence and embodiments of Euroscepticism in predominantly Eurooptimistic and Eurorealistic countries. The study also examines civic activism in countering hate discourses and practices and promoting European values of respect for difference, liberty, equality,

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European Handbook for SDG Voluntary Local Reviews – 2022 Edition

The European Handbook for SDG Voluntary Local Reviews – 2022 edition provides policymakers, urban practitioners, and experts with a consolidated method and examples of indicators that European local and regional governments can use to monitor the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) are processes that encompass both the monitoring

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The 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation

Major online platforms, emerging and specialized platforms, players in the advertising industry, fact-checkers, research, and civil society organizations delivered a strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation following the Commission’s Guidance of May 2021. The Code is a first-of-its-kind tool through which relevant players in the industry agreed – for the first time in 2018 –

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2021 CSO Meter

War, emergencies, the pandemic, and political turbulence significantly affected the environment for CSOs in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region in 2021. Their space to operate and possibilities for activism faced restrictions, both in law and in practice. The report analyses 11 key areas of civil society operation, such as freedom of association, participation, or access

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RAI: Corruption Risk Assessment Guidance with Checklists

The Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI) has published a few user-friendly documents produced for the Higher Education sector and the Public Enterprises sector, intending to outline the sector-specific risks with selected examples of how the most prevalent risks can be successfully targeted and equip beneficiaries with the right tools and building their capacities on using them. The documents

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Regulating Online Political Advertising in Europe: How will it Affect Civic Space?

In 2021, the European Commission tabled a proposal for a regulation on the transparency and targeting of political advertising, while some EU member states also try to incorporate their solutions into ongoing reforms of national electoral laws. In the proposed EU regulation, “political advertising” is defined to encompass electoral advertising or advertising coming from political

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ITU Report on Digital Skills Assessment in North Macedonia

The report produced by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in cooperation with the Ministry of Information Society and the Administration of North Macedonia, determines the current situation with digital skills in the country. The report aims to assess the current supply and demand of digital skills in the country and develop a digital skills strategy

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BiH: CSO Community Urges Decisions of the OHR to be Subject to Legal Precedents and the Rule of Law

The Parliamentary Assembly of BiH missed the opportunity, especially with the obstruction of representatives/delegates from the Croatian National Assembly and Alliance of Independent Social Democrats to pass amendments to the Election Law on improving the integrity of the election process, as stated in the public address of the Declaration for the Constitutional Change of BiH.

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