{"id":3620,"date":"2025-11-21T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:27:10","slug":"what-happens-after-europes-ngos-are-dismantled-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/11\/21\/what-happens-after-europes-ngos-are-dismantled-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens after Europe&#8217;s NGOs are dismantled?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The article warns of the consequences of systematically weakening NGOs across Europe. These organizations have been vital in ensuring clean air, safe products, and climate protection, but now face defunding and delegitimization. Without civil society\u2019s watchdog role, democracy risks becoming a \u201cspectator sport,\u201d where power operates unchecked between elections. The dismantling trend is already visible, with health NGOs losing EU funding and shutting down. Experts argue that accountability fades when civic space shrinks, turning participation into a hollow concept. The conclusion is stark: democracy\u2019s heartbeat depends on a strong civil society, and current trends are dangerously undermining it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/eu-political\/ar505fa78f\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/eu-political\/ar505fa78f\">EUobserver<\/a><br><strong>Date:<\/strong> November 4, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article warns of the consequences of systematically weakening NGOs across Europe. These organizations have been vital in ensuring clean air, safe products, and climate protection, but now face defunding and delegitimization. Without civil society\u2019s watchdog role, democracy risks becoming a \u201cspectator sport,\u201d where power operates unchecked between elections. The dismantling trend is already visible, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}