Comment: How the Ngo Debate Is Politically Instrumentalized

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The seemingly objective question of transparency is part of an authoritarian strategy. Civil society is to be weakened as a democratic counter-power. The latest issue of the ARD broadcast title, theses, temperaments took up a debate that has been fuelled in Germany for months by far-right extremists: the claim that non-governmental organisations are not independent enough... Source

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The seemingly objective question of transparency is part of an authoritarian strategy. What is presented as a seemingly objective question of transparency has long been part of the authoritarian playbook, as we know it from the USA. Civil society is to be weakened as a democratic counter-power. The post How the debate about "independent NGOs" is politically instrumentalized appeared first on Amadeu Antonio Foundation.