SOS4democracy EU Project

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❗️Despite the delay: the organizers predict that additional vessels will join the flotilla along the way, and in total, about a hundred ships with about a thousand activists from 70 countries are expected to participate in the largest humanitarian expedition of this kind.

Dozens of ships were supposed to set sail from Barcelona for Palestine, but unfortunately, the departure was postponed due to bad weather.

In her presentation, Almina discussed the specificity of academic boycotts within the legal academic community, highlighting their conceptual and practical connection to the understanding of law itself.

Last week, our team member Almina Selimbašić participated in the conference "Criminological Perspectives on Palestine: Legal Responses and Academic Complicity in Times of Genocide" organised by the Institute of Criminology and the Faculty of Law UL.

We look forward to your participation!

We are pleased to inform you that registration for the third SOS4democracy conference, “Resilience, Resistance, Renewal: Rethinking Democratic Politics in Times of War and Emergency”, is now open: sos4democracy.eu/registration-o…

New interview with Spanish political scientist Estefanía Molina (in Slovene) 🔗 delo.si/sobotna-prilog…

If voters reject the reform, it would mark the Prime Minister’s first major political defeat 🔗 delo.si/novice/svet/pr…

Coalition parties argue that the reform would strengthen the judiciary’s impartiality, while the opposition and a large part of the legal profession warn that it could lead to the subordination of the judiciary.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is facing one of the most significant tests of her tenure since taking office three years ago. Today, Italians will vote in a referendum on judicial reform.

🔗Read the full policy paper: sos4democracy.eu/parallel-track…

The report examines the process of autocratization in Turkey and Hungary. Once widely regarded as success stories of democratic transition, both countries have experienced significant democratic backsliding under leaders who initially came to power through free elections.

📢We are pleased to share a new policy paper published within the SOS4Democracy project, prepared by the Istanbul Political Research Institute and authored by Dr. Edgar Sar.

A report by the U.S. non-governmental organisation Action for Democracy identified China and Russia at the centre of a global network, followed by Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia in exporting authoritarian practices around the world. 🔗sos4democracy.eu/new-article-in…

🔊The cooperation among autocratic regimes is growing, becoming deeper, more multifaceted, and increasingly institutionalised.

The guest of our fourth podcast is Damir Banović, an associate professor at the University in Sarajevo – Faculty of Law. In this new episode of the SOS4Democracy podcast, Banović reflects on what happens when legal safeguards begin to weaken. 🔗sos4democracy.eu/interview-with…

𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 #𝟓 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 🎉 Our fifth newsletter is out, so you can see what we have been up to in the past half year. 👉Sign up for the following editions and receive news every six months. mailchi.mp/619e22c34ba7/s… #SOS4Democracy #HorizonEU #newsletter

Gasper Zavrsnik recently conducted an interview with Hugh Lovatt, Senior Analyst in the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), examining the so-called “Peace Committee,” a new initiative closely associated with Donald Trump.

𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐰 “𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞” 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭?