From across the border
There is always some tension when an NGO or voluntary organisation interacts with the government. There are also always power differences. The government with a hefty apparatus of civil servants who have capacity to sort out complicated issues and opposite to that an average voluntary organisation who do something very important from their experience and expertise, which is to address society from the fringes. But if that tension is not there,then it's not right. Then you sit in each other's chairs too much and too little comes out of it. Similarly, the tension can be described between the big meeting of NGOs for the Council of Europe, which takes place twice a year in Strasbourg, and