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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Auteur externe
Richard YOUNGS (Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe, Belgium and Professor at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom) and Ana ECHAGÜE (independent consultant)
À propos de ce document
Type de publication
Domaine politique
Mot-clé
- aide au développement
- condition de l'aide
- construction européenne
- DROIT
- droits et libertés
- droits politiques
- démocratisation
- financement de l'UE
- finances de l'Union européenne
- mouvement pour les droits de l'homme
- organisation non gouvernementale
- ORGANISATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- organisations non gouvernementales
- pays tiers
- politique de coopération
- politique étrangère et de sécurité commune
- pouvoir exécutif et administration publique
- RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- rôle international de l'UE
- société civile
- UNION EUROPÉENNE
- VIE POLITIQUE
- vie politique et sécurité publique