2025 Assessment – Regional report
The 2025 assessment finds the overall trend in implementing the Guidelines across the Western Balkans and Türkiye negative for a third consecutive cycle, with legal guarantees for the core freedoms…
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 Montenegro, Serbia, Regional
2025 Assessment – Report for Serbia
The 2025 assessment finds a widening gap in Serbia between a largely unchanged legal framework for civil society and a rapidly deteriorating environment in practice.
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.