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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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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- demokratisering
- det civila samhället
- EU:s finanser
- EU:s finansiering
- EU:s internationella roll
- europeisk integration
- EUROPEISKA UNIONEN
- gemensam utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik
- icke-statlig organisation
- icke-statliga organisationer
- INTERNATIONELLA FÖRBINDELSER
- INTERNATIONELLA ORGANISATIONER
- LAG OCH RÄTT
- människorättsrörelse
- POLITIK
- politik och allmän säkerhet
- politiska rättigheter
- rättigheter och friheter
- samarbetspolitik
- tredjeland
- utvecklingsbistånd
- verkställande makt och offentlig förvaltning
- villkor för bistånd