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We’re RECLAIM—fighting for equality, democracy, and LGBTQ+ rights in the EU. Ready to dive into the intersection of law, rights, and activism? Follow us for stories, strategies, and solidarity.

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RECLAIM is hiring an EU Legal Advisor (full-time, Brussels) to defend the rule of law and + LGBTQI rights.

📆 Apply by 22 August — but don’t wait, we may hire earlier!

🔗 Job description and how to apply:
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July 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🔴JOINT LETTER from 24 LGBTIQ+ and Human rights NGOs: Urgent call on Commission to take immediate action on Hungarian Pride Ban
The Commission alone has the power to act in time. Without intervention, the risk of irreparable harm, including imprisonment and organisational dissolution, is imminent.
April 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🔴 BREAKING: Hungary constitutionalizes blatant discrimination against LGBTI+ persons. Among other things:
• Declares “a person is either a man or a woman"
• Legitimizes the Pride ban (and ban on LGBTI+ events)
• Strips citizenship from critics
The EU must act. #LGBTIQ #Hungary #HumanRights #EU
April 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🔴PRIDE BANNED. Fascism Returns. Democracy Burning in Hungary.
It happened yesterday.
A rushed bill (48h to pass).
In the guise of 'child protection' from LGBTQ+ content.
Allows facial profiling of 'offenders' - & soon in any public space?
Fines up to €500.
#lgbtq+ #humanrights #eupolitics #hungary
March 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Illegitimate laws won't stop us
March 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Last night, Orbán’s party, Fidesz introduced a radical amendment to Hungary’s freedom of assembly law to ban Pride events, threatening participants with facial recognition surveillance and heavy fines. 🔊 Action under Article 7 is long overdue before Hungary succumbs to Orbán’s authoritarianism!
March 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When the EU fails to act, the far-right takes note and escalates. In the past month, 2 anti-LGBTQI+ bills in Bulgaria to:
🛑Ban LGBTQI+ content in public spaces
🛑Criminalize medical professionals for gender-affirming care
🛑Codify a de-facto ban on legal gender recognition for trans persons
March 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Today, RECLAIM attended the Launch of the 2024 Europe Press Freedom Report, from the Safety of Journalists Platform. Threats to independent media follow a clear pattern—intimidation, disinformation, legal harassment, and violence—all warning signs of democratic decline. The time to act is now!
March 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We did it! We built the largest lawsuit to defend civic space in EU history! 15 countries + the European Parliament have joined the case against Hungary’s foreign agents law targeting dissident voices. A major step for democracy, but the fight is not over. Oral hearings are next. Stay tuned.
March 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So far, 14 EU Member States have joined the lawsuit—Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal—along with Norway and the European Parliament.

The deadline is in 4 hours.
February 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Government repression of activists working with international institutions was once just a UN concern—something only authoritarian states did. Now, it’s taking root in the EU. In Hungary, anti-corruption NGOs can’t work with the EU without being branded traitors. Belgium won’t stand for this:
February 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Finland, one of the world’s freest places for journalists, won’t stay silent won’t stay silent as Orbán’s Sovereignty Protection Office targets journalists. Democracy survives only when journalists can report freely.

Thank you, Finland, for joining the lawsuit.
February 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Just months ago, Poland was battling democratic backsliding. Today, it’s leading Europe’s charge against autocracy.

Meanwhile, France—Europe's self-proclaimed guardian of human rights—stays conspicuously silent

Our thoughts for The French Dispatch:

https://lnkd.in/enK-bhxM
February 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Poland joins the Commission’s lawsuit against Orbán’s Foreign Agents Law—showing that the real threat to democracy isn’t Brussels, as Orbán claims, but those who erode it from within and serve Putin’s agenda.

𝗗𝘇𝗶𝗲̨𝗸𝘂𝗷𝗲𝗺𝘆, 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝘀𝗸𝗮! 💓
February 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗢𝗿𝗯á𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘄

Foreign agent laws silence civil society & pull countries into Kremlin’s grip. EU can't be passive as Orbán fuels Putin’s agenda

Democracy must also be defended in court

Estonia chose a side: others must follow

Thank you Min @tsahkna.bsky.social!
February 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻

In 2018, #Sweden stood alone with the Commission against Orbán’s first foreign agents law. Today, litigation against anti-NGO crackdowns is no longer taboo.

We owe a profound debt to Sweden for consistently championing democracy and the judicial protection of rights.
February 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The Dutch Parliament—government and opposition parties together—just voted to 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 the government to join the Commission’s lawsuit against Orbán's last foreign agents law.

It shouldn't have taken a vote, but here we are. Now, we wait for the government to 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 file.
February 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Norway has become the first non-EU country to back the Commission's lawsuit against Orbán's Foreign Agent law.

With USAID stepping back and EU CERV under pressure, ensuring the EEA Civil Society Fund can continue to disburse grants has never been more critical.

Well, done, Norway!
February 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
RECLAIM and Transparency International EU, together with 15 other NGOs, sent a letter to French President Macron and French Minister for Foreign Affairs Barrot, calling France to join the court case against Hungary’s “Sovereignty Protection Law”.

Read our statement here: bit.ly/4b1zMpS
February 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
PM Orbán has just declared his intention to ban Hungary's pro-democracy NGOs. EU Member States need to respond decisively by backing the Commission’s lawsuit against Orbán’s foreign agents’ law.

Deadline to join - 𝐸𝑈 𝑣𝑠. 𝑂𝑟𝑏𝑎́𝑛’𝑠 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑦- is Feb. 27.

Protect Democracy. Join Now.

reclaiming.eu/spo
February 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
⚖️𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗢𝗿𝗯𝗮́𝗻'𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘄

For years, the EP has condemned the degradation of civic space throughout the EU. Now, its steadfast condemnations have sparked a groundbreaking human rights case to protect civic space. Well done, EP!
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🔴 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗢𝗿𝗯𝗮́𝗻’𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘄

#Denmark is now the second Member State to announce its intervention alongside the Commission in the case against Hungary’s "Sovereignty Protection Law".

~~𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑢𝑝 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡? ~~
February 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘇𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗣𝗢 𝗟𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁. 👏

The #Czech Republic is the first country to officially support the Commission in its proceedings against Hungary’s Sovereignty Protection Law at the CJEU.

More good news to come…

#EULaw #EUJustice #CJEU #ruleoflaw #civicspace
February 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🔴 𝗨𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗿𝗯𝗮́𝗻’𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗕𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀
EU Member States have until February 27, 2025, to join this crucial lawsuit. Here’s why this is a pivotal moment for democracy across Europe and how you can help us 🧵
January 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁? Orbán is threatening to veto the next MFF unless the EU lifts the fund suspension. But that’s not all—last week, he tightened his grip on the judiciary (again). This isn’t a coincidence; controlling the courts is key to keeping corruption unpunished.
December 20, 2024 at 9:15 AM