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Where does the democracy assistance go? The new democracy support data tool of the European Democracy Hub digs deep into the major donors’ democracy spending. 

Democracy support in 2023 was shaped by the intricate relationships between conflict, policy, and the evolving political landscape. The European Democracy Hub’s 2023 European Democracy Support Annual Review guides you through the international and domestic democracy support policies across Europe.

The European Democracy Support Annual Review 2022 showcases how countries responded to protecting and supporting democracy in this new context.

The European Democracy Hub offers a review of the European democracy-support policies and programmes in 2021. 

Four country case studies of EU and member state support for women’s political participation and leadership under the second Gender Action Plan by the European Democracy Hub.

It is time to consider how policy dialogue works in practice and in what ways it can strengthen EU Delegations in their role of development partners. 

Four case studies of different types of dominant-party regimes in Georgia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe.

We explore how democratic space was affected by the COVID-19 crisis, drawing on case studies from Burundi, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda and Venezuela.

We delve at the key challenges to political party support programmes, inclusion in political parties, the role of parties in elections, and cooperation between parties.

This factsheet series brings together insights from the field to provide a simple overview of the different themes that are important for democratic governance.

This paper underlines how the Action Plan can provide a comprehensive framework and vision to guide the EU and its Member States to strengthen and protect democracy in Europe.

COVID-19 has hit at a time of increasing challenges to governance and a widely-recognised trend of gradual autocratisation in many regions of the world.

This report aims to broaden the understanding of the different tactics that countries and governments use to close democratic space.

Did Facebook, Google and Twitter fulfilled their commitments outlined in the Code of Practice on Online Disinformation in Italy, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands during the 2019 EU elections?

We look at what European democracy support has achieved, what can be improved today and where democracy support should be headed.