Category: STATEMENTS

Local Elections 2025 Report: Lessons Not Learned — Now in Print, After Its Digital Release in December
CIVIL Publishes Book-Length Analysis and Recommendations on the 2025 Local Elections in North Macedonia

Jan 16, 2026 | PRESS RELEASE, ELECTIONS, NEWSLETTER, NEWSROOM, test-newsl

PRESS RELEASE Skopje, January 16, 2026 — CIVIL – Center for Freedom announces the release of the...

Germany’s Strategic Turn: Merz on Russia as a Continental Threat, Europe’s Security, and a Changing Transatlantic Order
How Berlin is repositioning itself amid Russia’s aggression and a changing transatlantic order

Jan 1, 2026 | ANALYSIS, EUROPE, NEWSLETTER, POLITICS, STATEMENTS

By Jabir Deralla Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a New Year address that read as both a...

Marking the End of 2025: A Year of Monitoring and Strategic Actions — A Snapshot of CIVIL’s National and International Work

Dec 31, 2025 | CIVIL SOCIETY, DEMOCRACY, NEWSLETTER, NEWSROOM, PRESS RELEASE

As 2025 draws to a close, CIVIL marks the end of this turbulent year with one more contribution to...

Season’s Greetings and New Year Message from CIVIL: Truth Matters

Dec 31, 2025 | PRESS RELEASE, DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, NEWSLETTER, SOCIETY, STATEMENTS

At the end of 2025, we take a moment to reflect — not only on the passing of time, but on the...

Democracy does not defend itself: What 2025 taught us about democracy

Dec 30, 2025 | STATEMENTS, DEMOCRACY, SOCIETY

The year 2025 reminded us of something simple — and uncomfortable. Democracy does not defend...

Ukraine is committed to democracy
War, Rights, and the Horizon of Freedom for Ukraine and Europe — Speech delivered at the International Conference “Defending Democracy: Horizons of Freedom”, Skopje, 12 December 2025

Dec 17, 2025 | DEMOCRACY, STATEMENTS, WAR IN UKRAINE

H.E. Larysa Dir Ambassador of Ukraine The topic of defending democracy is very pressing and...

German Ambassador Petra Drexler: Defending Democracy as a Shared European Responsibility
Video address to CIVIL’s International Conference “Defending Democracy: Horizons of Freedom,” Skopje, 12 December 2025

Dec 16, 2025 | DEMOCRACY, STATEMENTS

At CIVIL’s international conference “Defending Democracy: Horizons of Freedom,” held in Skopje on...

Human Rights Week Key Event: International Conference “Defending Democracy – Horizons of Freedom” – Full Programme

Dec 11, 2025 | NEWSROOM, PRESS RELEASE

DEFENDING DEMOCRACY: HORIZONS OF FREEDOM High-Level Conference Skopje, Friday, December 12, 2025...

(VIDEO) Silence in the face of injustice is complicity – CIVIL’s message on the Human Rights Day

Dec 10, 2025 | DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, STATEMENTS

Human Rights Day reminds us that democracy does not sustain itself; it survives through the active...

Human Rights Day 2025: When Democracy Is Under Attack, Silence Is Complicity
A call to solidarity, dignity, and democratic resilience.

Dec 10, 2025 | HUMAN RIGHTS, STATEMENTS

PUBLIC STATEMENT On Human Rights Day 2025, we stand at a turning point. Across the world, the...

DEFENDING DEMOCRACY: HORIZONS OF FREEDOM (FULL PROGRAMME)
Democracy Navigator 2025 – Human Rights Week

Dec 7, 2025 | PRESS RELEASE, DEMOCRACY, NEWSROOM

CONTEXT As truth is contested, human rights threatened, and democracies across the world pressured...