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.
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Autor externo
Richard YOUNGS (Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe, Belgium and Professor at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom) and Ana ECHAGÜE (independent consultant)
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Ámbito político
Palabra clave
- ayuda al desarrollo
- condiciones de la ayuda
- construcción europea
- democratización
- DERECHO
- derechos políticos
- derechos y libertades
- financiación de la UE
- finanzas de la Unión Europea
- movimiento pro derechos humanos
- ORGANIZACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- organizaciones no gubernamentales
- organización no gubernamental
- papel internacional de la UE
- país tercero
- poder ejecutivo y administración pública
- política de cooperación
- política exterior y de seguridad común
- RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- sociedad civil (movimientos de opinión)
- UNIÓN EUROPEA
- VIDA POLÍTICA
- vida política y seguridad pública