Silencing Greenpeace - Can the EU Prevent the Chilling Effect on Democracy From Crossing the Atlantic?
Eckes, Christina
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Paiement, Phillip
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Verfassungsblog
2025-03-31
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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?
Eckes, Christina
Anti-SLAPP
Civil Disobedience
Donald Trump
Environmental Activism
Greenpeace International | Amsterdam
SLAPP
Greenpeace International | Amsterdam
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https://verfassungsblog.de/greenpeace-slapp-energy-transfer/
Verfassungsblog
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Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH
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