🇪🇺A historic moment!🎆
The #EU Anti-SLAPP Directive has been published in the Official Gazette.

Now all eyes are on Member States. which need to build on the foundation set by the Directive and draft effective and comprehensive national legislation.

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🔶How to combat legal abuse vs. public watchdogs?

🔶Conference on SLAPPs in #Warsaw 🇵🇱

We will discuss legal & non-legal tools & good practices. #Poland leads Europe in this troubling trend.

🗓️25-26.04

🔶Check the agenda & Reach out for details!
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📢CASE welcomes the CoE’s Rec on #SLAPPs , approved by the Committee of Ministers. It significantly enhances the standards set by the EU Directive & will help push non-EU MSs to introduce meaningful anti-SLAPP protections.

Read CASE's full statement here: the-case.eu/latest/coes-re…

We want to thank Dunja Mijatovic for always being a strong ally in advocating for robust anti- #SLAPP protections to safeguard public watchdogs & counter abuse of law aimed at stifling public interest debate. Thank you for all you do for #HumanRights and #FoE .
Commissioner for Human Rights

🎆As TotalEnergies celebrates its 100th anniversary today, the court sided w/ Greenpeace France deeming the summons too vague to allow the NGO to effectively defend itself on the merits. TotalEnergies is ordered to pay 15K EUR for costs incurred for the procedure.
#STOPSLAPPs

🌍EUROPE: ‘Member states must introduce national anti-SLAPP legislation to protect public watchdogs’- Francesca Borg Costanzi of Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation on recently adopted European Union (EU) Anti-SLAPP Directive
🔗web.civicus.org/FrancescaBorg
#CIVICUSLens #SLAAPs

EUROPE: ‘Member states must introduce national anti-SLAPP legislation to protect public watchdogs’

Francesca Borg Costanzi speaks to CIVICUS about The CASE, the Directive, and MSs' responsibility to effectively transpose it.

Read more here: shorturl.at/mrU12

As her mandate as Commissioner for Human Rights comes to an end, we express our heartfelt thanks to Dunja Mijatovic for all her work, in particular with countering #SLAPPs .

We look forward to engaging with Michael O'Flaherty as he takes up the role.

Commissioner for Human Rights The CASE

EUROPE: ‘Member states must introduce national anti-SLAPP legislation to protect public watchdogs’

Francesca Borg Costanzi speaks to CIVICUS about The CASE, the Directive, and MSs' responsibility to effectively transpose it.

Read more here: shorturl.at/mrU12

🇮🇹💚✊Solidarity w/ Greenpeace Italia

Energy company eni's threat of yet another libel lawsuit against Greenpeace Italy, the third in under a year, is unacceptable. It's clear retaliation for Greenpeace's vital environmental work & demonstrating harmful impact of fossil fuels.

.Thodoris Chondrogiannos of Reporters United details various ways #SLAPPs affect journalists - fear, financial burden or total distraction from work to fight a case in court. 'Don't write about us or we will go after you' - is a message.
Council of Europe Media Freedom meeting in #Greece 🇬🇷

Index's own Jessica Ní Mhainín joins Flutura Kusari of European Centre for Press and Media Freedom to highlight the challenges facing journalists across Europe from #SLAPPs , as well as progress being made both at an European and UK-level to stamp out this form of legal intimidation.

📢 Dive into the Annual Report of the Safety of Journalists Platform!
Register to join us tomorrow on Zoom, 5 March, from 10:00 to 12:00 EET (9:00 CET)
👉fom.coe.int/en/rapports/de…
Join the movement to Turn the Tide for Press Freedom in Europe!
#EuropeForFreeMedia

⚡️ Historic moment – this week, the Anti-SLAPP Directive was officially adopted.

Our Flutura Kusari had a chat with MEP Tiemo Wölken 🇪🇺 on the significance of Daphne's Law in safeguarding journalists and the possible next steps of its implementation: youtube.com/watch?v=GLXTJF…

🌟Country in the Spotlight

Our new series showcases regional networks that carry out anti-SLAPP advocacy on national level.
This month we introduce 🇨🇭the Swiss Alliance Against #SLAPP
Discover their work & and the situation in #Switzerland
the-case.eu/latest/cases-c…

📌CASE begins its Country in the Spotlight series with a focus on Switzerland! We present the Swiss Alliance Against SLAPP - the alliance of NGOs carrying out anti-SLAPP advocacy in Switzerland as part of the CASE regional network.

Read more here: the-case.eu/latest/cases-c…

Thank you Věra Jourová Tiemo Wölken 🇪🇺 David Casa Roberta Metsola & others whose determination & contribution have made this historic day possible. #StopSLAPPs

Big shoutout to members of The CASE for their tireless work.

#DaphnesLaw will soon become a reality!

While we celebrate a historic day with the Anti-SLAPP Directive adopted, all eyes are now on EU states to ensure robust safeguards for public watchdogs materialise. #DaphnesLaw

🔶Key issues:
-Broad scope
- Early dismissal
-Compensatory damages

🔖Details: the-case.eu/latest/the-ant…

Following the historic European Parliament vote that adopted the Anti-SLAPP Directive, CASE Steering Committee Flutura Kusari expresses gratitude to Viola von Cramon 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇱 & other key MEPs for their steadfast support in the long process of negotiating vital protections for public watchdogs.

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Breaking: The European Parliament just approved the Anti-SLAPP Directive in its first reading (Daphne's Law). Historic development. Journalism, activism, and other types of public participation will finally be protected from baseless, costly, and time-consuming lawsuits.