Shrinking space for civil society: the EU response
The EU has developed an impressive range of policy tools for pushing back against restrictions on civil society across the world. It has gradually improved the way it deploys these instruments and has helped protect many activists at risk. Notwithstanding this, the EU needs to sharpen its ‘shrinking space’ strategy. This study suggests a range of precise policy changes it should contemplate to this end. It advocates a number of strategic guidelines that could help make the EU’s responses more proactive; better able to tackle the broad structural elements of the shrinking space; fully balanced between political and development approaches; and geared towards building more inclusive alliances against new restrictions on civil society.
Studija
Vanjski autor
Richard YOUNGS (Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe, Belgium and Professor at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom) and Ana ECHAGÜE (independent consultant)
Informacije o dokumentu
Vrsta publikacije
Područje politike
Ključna riječ
- civilno društvo
- demokratizacija
- EUROPSKA UNIJA
- financije EU-a
- financiranje EU-a
- izgrađivanje Europe
- izvršna vlast i javne službe
- međunarodna uloga EU-a
- MEĐUNARODNE ORGANIZACIJE
- MEĐUNARODNI ODNOSI
- nevladina organizacija
- nevladine organizacije
- pokret za ljudska prava
- POLITIKA
- politika i javna sigurnost
- politika suradnje
- politička prava
- pomoć u razvoju
- prava i slobode
- PRAVO
- treća zemlja
- uvjeti za dobivanje pomoći
- zajednička vanjska i sigurnosna politika