SECOND EVENT
Participatory Workshop – “Vers un cadre anti-SLAPP robuste en France : formuler des recommandations communes à la société civile”
This second event, designed as a participatory workshop, served to critically deepen the analysis initiated during the first event. It notably examined the comparative findings through the lens of their underlying assumptions and practical implications, with the aim of co-developing policy recommendations, endorsed by a large group of civil society actors, that are both legally robust and contextually grounded. The objective is not only to advocate for a more inclusive and ambitious transposition of the EU Directive, that integrates the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers’ recommendations. This entails reinforcing the capacity of the French legal system to shield individuals and organisations from the burden of SLAPPs, while safeguarding the essential role of civil society in holding powerful actors to account and fostering civic space. The third and final event took the form of a roundtable aimed at presenting a refined set of policy proposals to French decisionmakers, which was made publicly available in the form of a policy brief.
This event is part of the second cycle of the Building for the Future Initiative, coordinated by On Think Tanks (OTT) and supported by the Open Society Foundations, to amplify student and youth-led think tank initiatives, diverse perspectives and advance innovative policy solutions across Europe and beyond, and encourage the exchange of good practices among regions.
