“Year after year, SLAPPs are increasingly a worrying threat to democracy across Europe”, warned CASE, a coalition of non-governmental organisations fighting against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) in Europe, in its annual report published on Wednesday 23 August.
Power imbalance
In fact, it lists 820 SLAPPs in 2023, compared with 570 in 2022, with a “notable number” of lawsuits recorded in Malta, France, the United Kingdom, Croatia, Greece, Turkey and...