#216 ‘Too inconvenient? How a powerful campaign aims to weaken European civil society’

Recording of episode #216 of Europe Calling from 10 February 2025 with the following guests:

Patrizia Heidegger, Deputy Secretary General of the European Environmental Bureau, the European umbrella organisation of over 185 environmental and climate NGOs

Nina Katzemich, campaigner on the topics of lobby regulation and lobbying in the EU at Lobbycontrol and Europe Calling board member

Dr. Raphael Weyland, head of the EU office of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), one of the oldest German environmental NGOs with over 900,000 members

Prof. Dr. René Repasi, German Member of the European Parliament for the SPD in the S&D Group, Speaker of the SPD European Parliamentary Group

Daniel Freund, German Member of the European Parliament for Bündnis90/Die Grünen (Greens/EFA) and former anti-corruption expert at Transparency International

Moderation: Maximilian Fries, Managing Director of Europe Calling e.V.

More information: https://europe-calling.de/en/webinar/inconvenient-civil-society/