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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 1d

Did you catch Liberties' recap newsletter?

It covered:
🌐 Our call to Google and Meta not to abandon EU voters
🔒 Civ Soc strategy paper
📝 Letter to #VDL to defend digital sovereignty
📰 Member org news

Read it here:
➡️ link.liberties.eu/0d4117

And sign up now:
➡️ link.liberties.eu/daea18

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 1d

Learn more about Simona Levi and Xnet by reading the full interview on our website.

Read it now ➡️ link.liberties.eu/fc1bdb

#MeetOurMembers #YourDataYourBusiness #Spain

A 24/7 activist, whose campaigning instincts come from the arts | liberties.eu

Meet Simona Levi, founder of Barcelona-based digital rights NGO Xnet, who honed her instinct for creative and emotionally engaging campaigning through the arts.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 1d

🎬 Her approach to activism is influenced by the arts. Following a stint as a professional dancer and actress, she moved on to directing, putting on plays such as 'Become a Banker', which put a thespian spin on the financial crisis heating up Spanish society.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 1d

🇮🇹 ➡️ 🇪🇸 Born and raised in Italy, she ended up in Spain, where she co-founded Xnet, a Barcelona-based NGO that fights for progressive solutions to the 21st-century democratic challenges.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 1d

🌐 Meet Simona Levi from @xnet-x.net in the latest edition of Meet Our Members 🤝

Hailing from a lineage of political agitators, Simona is the kind of activist who eats, breathes and sleeps her work.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 7d

📤 Liberties' monthly newsletter is going out soon

It covers:
🌐 Google and Meta, don't abandon EU voters
🔒 Civil soc strategy paper
📝 Letter to VDL to defend digital sovereignty
🎂 Our 🇩🇪member celebrates a big milestone

Sign up now to get it straight to your inbox
➡️ link.liberties.eu/53db94

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 7d

This week in Berlin we got together with Liberties members from all over Europe 🙌

We swapped experiences, came up with new ideas to stay strong, and made some big decisions for the road ahead.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined and shared their energy 🫶

More updates coming soon...

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 7d

Read our letter to the European Commission here:

www.liberties.eu/f/5kycmd

www.liberties.eu

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ECNL @ecnl.bsky.social · 7d

🌈 Together with @liberties.eu and the HCLU, we urge the European Commission to uphold the #AIAct in Hungary and protect the participants of the Pecs #Pride from #AI #surveillance. 👀

#FacialRecognition #FundamentalRights

Read our letter here:
ecnl.org/news/civil-s...

Civil society urges the European Commission to uphold the AI Act in Hungary

ECNL, Liberties and the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union call on the EU to protect Pecs Pride participants from AI surveillance.

ecnl.org

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 8d

....to initiate infringement proceedings against Hungary and to immediately request interim measures from the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ)."

Here's more from netzpolitik.org (in German):

netzpolitik.org/2025/gesicht...

netzpolitik.org

netzpolitik.org - Online-Medium für digitale Freiheitsrechte

netzpolitik.org

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 8d

In a letter earlier this week, civil society organizations - @liberties.eu, @ecnl.bsky.social, TASZ - called on Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to make up for what the EU failed to do ahead of the Budapest event...
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netzpolitik.org

netzpolitik.org - Online-Medium für digitale Freiheitsrechte

netzpolitik.org

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 8d

After the ban on the #Pride parade in #Budapest in June, Hungarian authorities are now targeting a demonstration for #QueerRights in the country for the second time. This time, it concerns the Pride planned this Saturday in the southern Hungarian city of Pécs.

It is an affront to Brussels.
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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 8d

#FacialRecognition vs. #FundamentalRights

The Hungarian government has not only banned a #Pride 🌈 event (again) — this time, police are authorized to use real-time facial recognition.

We are urging the Commission to intervene immediately ahead of the peaceful assembly this Saturday.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 8d

To support the Commission with this critical step, Liberties has written a civil society strategy paper, outlining 5 key pillars needed to bolster civil society.

Read it here
➡️ link.liberties.eu/a64d51

Stand with Civil Society to Protect Human Rights

Why a bold civil society strategy needed for the European Union.

link.liberties.eu

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 8d

The European Commission @ec.europa.eu recognises that the work of NGOs is growing more precarious by the day, and has committed to implementing a Civil Society Strategy to tackle these evolving challenges.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 8d

✊Stand with Civil Society to Protect Human Rights ✊

Civil society organisations are essential in a healthy, vibrant democracy. And when democracy is under threat, their role becomes even more critical.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 12d

Estonian Human Rights Centre,
European Center for Not-For-Profit Law Stichting,
Expert Forum,
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, @HungarianHelsinki.bsky.social,
League of Human Rights,
@Njcm-nl.bsky.social,
Peace Institute,
@voxpublic.bsky.social,
@whotargets.me

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 12d

Shout-out to all the groups standing with us 🎉

aHang Platform,
@bcsdn.bsky.social
Bulgarian Helsinki Committee,
@crdefenders.bsky.social,
CEE Digital Democracy Watch,
Centre for Peace Studies,
Coalizione Italiana per le Libertà e i Diritti civili (CILD)

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 13d

Read our blog to learn why these changes are so concerning and what we want Google and Meta to do to uphold their obligations to democracy.

👉 link.liberties.eu/35df93

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Meta and Google, Don't Throw European Voters Under The Bus: Why Self-Imposed Political Advertising Bans Threaten Free and Fair Elections in Europe

Civil society organisations warn Big Tech companies that stepping away from the political advertising market does not absolve them of their responsibility; their platforms must still ensure free and f...

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 13d

The Dutch parliamentary elections (29 October 2025) will be the first to take place under these new conditions, followed by Hungary’s general elections in April 2026.

We expect less transparency and more vulnerability to manipulation— both subtle and overt.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 13d

By framing their move as a “compliance safeguard,” Google & Meta avoid the complexity of the new rules.

The consequences for democracy are real:
🔹 Civil society voices will be silenced
🔹 More polarisation
🔹 Threats to election integrity

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 13d

But does that free them from their responsibilities under the #DigitalServicesAct (DSA)?

❌ Absolutely not

They must still protect against risks to:
➡️ fair elections
➡️ free civic discourse

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 13d

🚨 Together with 17 civil society organisations, Liberties is calling on Google & Meta to uphold their duty to protect democracy in Europe.

Both companies plan to stop carrying political, electoral & likely “social issue” ads in Oct 2025, when the #TTPA enters into force.

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Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 15d

Plus, stay tuned for the next edition in our Meet Our Members series, which drops in a few days.

#MeetOurMembers #MediaFreedom #Daphne #Malta

Liberties.EU @liberties.eu · 15d

🤐 "I have a sinking fear that the reason nobody's being targeted the way she was, is that nobody's taking on as much as she did individually."

Did you read our unmissable interview with Corinne of @daphne.foundation, who reflects on her sister's murder 8 years on.
➡️ link.liberties.eu/a3c2d6

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