2025 Assessment – Report for Montenegro
The 2025 assessment finds the environment for civil society in Montenegro broadly stable, with no major negative changes to the core freedoms, but with growing pressure on how they are implemented.
Knowledge & Analysis
Analysis and evidence on the enabling environment for civil society, including independent media, across the Western Balkans and Türkiye: assessments against the DG NEAR Guidelines, CSO-led monitoring reports, tracking of the legal and financial environment in which civil society operates, and thematic analysis, including regional and national trends.
The TACSO Library, covering the earlier phases of EU support to civil society in the region, remains accessible here.
DG NEAR Guidelines assessments
An assessment against the Guidelines is produced every year, as seven beneficiary reports and one regional report. The series has a page of its own, with every edition and the languages each is published in.
3 results for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro
2025 Assessment – Report for Bosnia and Herzegovina
The 2025 assessment finds that constitutional safeguards for civil society in Bosnia and Herzegovina worked in practice, but did not remove the chilling effect of restrictive initiatives…
2025 Assessment – Report for Albania
The 2025 assessment finds civil society in Albania operating under tightening practical constraints within a largely sound legal framework.