EU democracy promotion in the Eastern neighbourhood: a turn to civil society?

This paper presents empirical data which show that the EU has genuinely turned over a new leaf in its support to democracy through civil society development. However, it argues that the EU still needs more fundamentally to review the way it implements civil society support in the Eastern neighbourhood if its new initiatives are to contribute effectively to demand-driven, bottom-up reform.

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Source: FRIDE- a European think tank for global action