Germany Designates Iran-Backed Hezbollah As A Terrorist Organization In Its Entirety

Today, Germany designated Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization, banning all of its activities in the country. The announcement by the Federal Ministry of the Interior came hours after German authorities raided properties in Bremen...

Germany has acted on Hezbollah. Now the EU must follow.

On April 30, Germany took the long overdue step of designating Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist group. It is past time that the European Union update its own designation of Hezbollah and ban the group in its entirety in order to limit its...

Register Now: CEP Webinar on Terrorist Content Online Regulation in the EU and Lessons Learned from Germany’s NetzDG Law

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to join us in a May 6 webinar discussion about European regulation of extremist and terrorist content online.

Following the German government's designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety, banning all activities of the group in the country, CEP's Dr. Schindler explained the context and consequences of such a move.

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on Deutsche Welle News

Following the German government's designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety, banning all activities of the group in the country, CEP's Dr. Schindler explained the context and consequences of such a move.

"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher for the Counter Extremism Project, says that groups like the ‘Nordic Resistance’ and ‘Hundred Handers’ have sought to increase their membership by capitalising on the pandemic, and ‘Generation Identity’ has used the...

CEP-GLOBSEC Webinar: How To Map The Muslim Brotherhood’s Presence In An Uncharted Region?

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and Bratislava, Slovakia-based think tank GLOBSEC invite you to join us in a webinar discussion, launching the first report on mapping Muslim Brotherhood activities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

CEP Webinar: "Current global threat posed by ISIS and al-Qaeda" – Edmund Fitton-Brown (U.N.)

The global networks of ISIS and al-Qaeda continue to operate, plan, and execute attacks during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The arrest of an ISIS-linked cell in Germany on April 15, 2020 is a reminder of that reality. The suspects were also...

CEP Webinar “Current global threat posed by ISIS and al-Qaeda" – Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler (CEP)

On April 29, 2020, CEP senior director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler presented the latest CEP policy paper “Financing of Terrorism and Social Media Platforms”. The paper is based on recent CEP research concerning the major defensive mechanisms social...

CEP Webinar “Current global threat posed by ISIS and al-Qaeda" – Jacqueline Shire (U.N.)

The global networks of ISIS and al-Qaeda continue to operate, plan, and execute attacks during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The arrest of an ISIS-linked cell in Germany on April 15, 2020 is a reminder of that reality. The suspects were also...