The paper follows an in-depth study in 2020 in which CEP, commissioned by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, analyzed the transnational connectivity of violent right-wing extremist (vXRW) and terrorist movements in five European countries and the United States.

This webinar explored the current situation and regulatory developments and discussed the various challenges encountered by governments and industry in countering this threat.

Die Finanzierung gewaltorientierter rechtsextremer Organisationen und Akteur:innen in Deutschland ist divers und breit gefächert.

The financing of violence-oriented right-wing extremist organizations and actors in Germany is diverse and wide-ranging.

Open Letter from HateAid gGmbH and Counter Extremism Project to the governments of Sweden, Ireland and Finland: Are you safeguarding freedom of speech online or protecting the Big Tech?

The virtual conference organized by CEP on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office on May 10, 2021, was opened by Simon Herchen, Deputy Head of Division “International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime” of the German Federal Foreign Office and Ileana Visoiu, Chair of the Council of Europe Committee on Counter-Terrorism.

The report by Kacper Rekawek, PhD focuses on several case studies in the following countries: the Czech Republic (and Slovakia), Hungary, Poland and Ukraine

Author: Alexander Ritzmann – Senior Advisor to CEP where he focusses on effective regulation and compliance of “social media” since 2015, working on the EU Internet Forum, the German NetzDG law, the EU Terrorist Online Directive and the DSA.

The new audit regime that the Digital Services Act (DSA) envisions for very large platforms mirrors in significant aspects audit regimes already deployed in other industries, in particular the financial industry.

Throughout 2021, CEP, in cooperation with the Federal Foreign Office of Germany will address this issue set in a series of virtual events, bringing together relevant national and multilateral policy stakeholders.