Dear Statewatchers,
Statewatch is now well into its 26th year and civil liberties and democracy are under attack as never before from authoritarian and exclusionary governments across Europe.
The need for an informed response to counter these threats has never been greater and we continue to provide regular news, information and documentation to inform and empower individuals and civil society to take action on civil liberties issues across the continent.
We are writing to ask you to support our work.
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Statewatch is now well into its 26th year and civil liberties and democracy are under attack as never before from authoritarian and exclusionary governments across Europe.
The need for an informed response to counter these threats has never been greater and we continue to provide regular news, information and documentation to inform and empower individuals and civil society to take action on civil liberties issues across the continent.
We are writing to ask you to support our work.
Your ongoing support will enable Statewatch to maintain and extend its free of charge coverage to:
- Our daily news service – over 2,000 stories published last year with extensive documentation (including dozens of secret EU documents)
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“I wonder how we would be informed if Statewatch was not there...” - Philippe de Bruycker, Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and coordinator of the Odysseus Academic Network
“In routinely placing complex policies and increased state powers in the public domain, Statewatch performs a function that no other organisation fulfils. One is driven to wonder what it could have accomplished, and could accomplish in the future, were it to have even a tiny percentage of the resources enjoyed by other organisations." - Gareth Peirce, lawyer