nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/6c1f6cfed30ceef9 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250331s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/6c1f6cfed30ceef9 doi eng 342 23 Eckes, Christina Author aut Silencing Greenpeace - Can the EU Prevent the Chilling Effect on Democracy From Crossing the Atlantic? Eckes, Christina Verfassungsblog 2025-03-31 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In a stark example of a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP), a United States (US) state court compelled Greenpeace to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for facilitating trespass, conversion, nuisance, defamation, and civil conspiracy. The EU has correctly recognized the harm posed by SLAPPs in so far that they diminish civil society’s capacity to represent under- or unrepresented interest groups, and leverage civil law proceedings to stifle dissent in favor of the economically and politically powerful. Now, we will see if the Anti-SLAPP Directive is robust enough to protect European civil society actors from abusive lawsuits. Can the EU Prevent the Chilling Effect on Democracy From Crossing the Atlantic? Anti-SLAPP Civil Disobedience Donald Trump Environmental Activism Greenpeace International | Amsterdam SLAPP (DE-588)2070367-3 gnd Greenpeace International | Amsterdam Paiement, Phillip Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/greenpeace-slapp-energy-transfer/ raw object