A European Endowment for Democracy, if funded at even modest levels appropriate to its ambitions (up to around €30m/yr), could provide vital support for those engaged in civic activism. This could become part of a flexible strategy to foster democratic change without the stifling restrictions connected to “normal” EU assistance. A fresh mandate for the endowment would also make it compatible with existing instruments, in particular the need to preserve funding for core human-rights work under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights. The EED, if it is to be effective, flexible and impartial in its decision-making and delivery, will need to function as a nimble and light nongovernmental entity, at some distance from Europe’s institutions yet with the member-states’ buy-in.
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- don’t worry, dude, they’re not going to get ‘recognised’
- unmitigated joy
- you want to believe all this shit about priests and monks and “just war theory,” be my guest
- you got a problem with the USA? take it up with one of these
- “foreign bankers with their robot armies…”
- any dead gooks will do
- rape and torture, yum yum yum
- useful instant montage of fake houla photo
- it’s that girl again
- perhaps not exactly a ‘mistake’, more “what difference does it make?”
- it crawled into my hand, honest
- i don’t know how t cartalucci manages to write so much, but this is highly relevant
- where ignorant armies clash by night…
- just because she’s so good: a trish schuh triple retrospective from the counterpunch vaults
- sorry to have to get a bit graphic on ya, people
- i wonder whether, if you prodded people enough, they would still be capable of getting angry about all this
- grauniad, haaretz, beeb, nyt, wapo: all same lies
- what they mean is ‘al qaeda’ will be reputed to have taken these fairly mundane weapon stocks, and thus in can come NATO
- i think the real BBC attitude is “any dead gooks will do”
- everybody thought these people had been released, but they haven’t
- i said on +972 that arutz sheva would try to spin this fire-setting story backwards, and they have
- never forget the mahdi menace
- US continues to assume everybody else is as stupid as it is
- south beach cannibal zombie false flag etc
- yet yet more good movies
- drone movie
- true lies, then and now
- media scoundrel time with s j lendman
- exceedingly highly detailed “oh yes, they would”
- UN sec-gen is an almost senile, totally ignorant bureaucratic prostitute
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