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NEW: The EU’s External Democracy Action in a New Geopolitical Reality
The recommendations report looks at questions related to the relevance and coherence of the EU’s external democracy policy in a rapidly evolving geopolitical environment and pays special attention to the 2020–2024 EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy as a guiding framework.
International IDEA's Global State of Democracy 2022 shows that the quality of democracy is declining in half of democracies around the world while the number of countries with the most severe form of democratic erosion--what we call backsliding--is at its peak.
3 May 2022
Summit for Democracy and Year of Action 2022
The Summit for Democracy is a strategic opportunity to place democracy at the front and center of the global agenda. View our latest tool, the Summit for Democracy Commitment Dashboard to view country committment details.
The war in Ukraine underscores even more the need for democracies to stand united in the face of authoritarian threats. International IDEA has therefore developed a strategic engagement programme around the Summits for Democracy in 2021 and 2022.
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