Civil society organisations, including groups that work to protect human rights, are under growing threat in Europe itself.
The threat these days doesn't come just from repressive governments like those in Russia or Turkey. Nor it is even confined to democratic states on the road to authoritarianism like Hungary and Poland.
It now also comes from elected governments in states whose democracies appear in better health, such as France, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom.
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Benjamin Ward is deputy Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.