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DEMOCRACY's NEW CHAMPIONS European Democracy Assistance After EU Enlargement An assessment of the record of Europe’s new democracies in sharing their transition experience to promote democracy abroad and in keeping democracy promotion on the European political agenda ... ... the research includes an assessment of the Visegrad Four countries’ democracy assistance policies and practices towards Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cuba, and Ukraine. This publication and the accompanying PASOS research project, Evaluation of the Democracy Assistance Policies and Priorities of the Visegrad Countries, were supported by the International Visegrad Fund and the Open Society Institute Think-Tank Fund. Jacek Kucharczyk and Jeff Lovitt (eds) The research undertaken for this project was conducted in partnership with the following PASOS members: EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Czech Republic Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University, Hungary DEmocracy's Institute of Public Affairs, Poland Institute for Public Affairs, Slovakia NEw champioNs DEMOCRACY'S NEW CHAMPIONS European democracy assistance after EU enlargement Jacek Kucharczyk and Jeff Lovitt (editors) www.pasos.org This publication and the accompanying PASOS research project, Evaluation of the Democracy Assistance Policies and Priorities of the Visegrad Countries, were supported by the International Visegrad Fund and the Open Society Institute Think-Tank Fund. DEmocracy‘s NEw champioNs European democracy The research undertaken for this project was conducted in partnership with assistance the following PASOS members: after EU enlargement EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Czech Republic Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University, Hungary Jacek Kucharczyk and Jeff Lovitt (editors) Institute of Public Affairs, Poland Institute for Public Affairs, Slovakia PASOS Těšnov 3 110 00 Praha 1 Czech Republic Tel/fax: +420 2223 13644 Email: [email protected] www.pasos.org Contents Introduction - Evaluating Democracy Assistance Policies by Jeff Lovitt 5 About the Authors 9 PART I. Democracy Assistance Policies - Trends and Approaches Democracy‘s Re-energising Europe to Champion Democracy New The Visegrad Four bring fresh transition experience to the donors‘ side of the table champioNs by Jacek Kucharczyk and Jeff Lovitt 15 Limited Resources, Global Ambitions european democracy The Czech Republic‘s Democracy Assistance Policies and Priorities by Vladimír Bartovic 29 assistance Hungarian Minorities, the Balkans ... and the Far East after eU enlargement Hungary‘s Democracy Assistance Policies and Priorities by Áron Horváth 51 Editors: Jacek Kucharczyk and Jeff Lovitt Eastern Promises and Achievements Cover design: Alena Burianová Poland‘s Democracy Assistance Policies and Priorities Cover photographs: Alexander Polo/People in Need (Člověk v tísni) by Piotr Kaźmierkiewicz 81 Uladzimir Hrydzin Jaroslav Jiřička Exporting Democracy (not only Democracy...) Kateřina Špácová/People in Need (Člověk v tísni) Slovakia‘s Democracy Assistance Policies and Priorities by Grigorij Mesežnikov 115 Printed in Prague, Czech Republic, by Uniprint, s.r.o., September 2008 European Union: Democracy versus Bureaucracy © 2008 PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society), An Assessment of the Reform of the EU‘s External Assistance Instruments Sdružení pro podporu otevřené společnosti - PASOS by Věra Řiháčková 151 ISBN 978-80-2879-5 PART II. Visegrad Four Democracy Assistance PASOS Policies in Target Countries Těšnov 3 Belarus: Next Generation Democracy 110 00 Praha 1 by Marian Kowalski 189 Czech Republic Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Closely Watched Democracy Registered address: by Sanida Kikić 215 Prokopova 197/9 Cuba: Forging Alliances Across the Transatlantic Divide 130 00 Praha 3 Czech Republic by Francesco Guarascio 247 Ukraine: Supporting Elusive Consolidation Tel/fax: +420 2223 13644 by Natalia Shapovalova and Olga Shumylo 267 Email: [email protected] www.pasos.org Democracy'S New Champions 2 Jacek Kucharczyk and Jeff Lovitt (editors) 3 Introduction Evaluating Democracy Assistance Policies - Jeff Lovitt Evaluating Democracy Assistance Policies An assessment of the emerging policies and priorities of the Visegrad Four countries Jeff Lovitt Executive Director, PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society) s a network of independent policy centres engaged in issues around democratic Atransition, the members of PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society) share a wealth of experience of the intricacies of policymaking during the transition to democracy. However, the network also includes think-tanks whose scope for participation is thwarted by authoritarian leaders blocking multi-party democracy, freedom of expression, and pro- tection of human rights - not only before the fall of the Berlin Wall, but up until the present day in some post-Soviet countries. As PASOS occupies a unique space, bridging policy thinking in Europe’s new member states with the perceptions of thought leaders in the countries of the Western Balkans, the Black Sea region, and Central Asia, not to mention Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, the issue of the European Union’s policies towards its eastern neighbours is high on the agenda for policy analysts and policymakers in the region. At the annual meeting of the PASOS members in Istanbul in November 2006, it was agreed that PASOS should engage in the debate on the fostering of a more flexible app- roach to EU funding in support of democracy and human rights, and should examine potential future models for European democracy assistance. As a result, PASOS became involved with other civil society actors across the EU in the formation of the European Part- nership for Democracy (EPD), which was launched in Brussels in April 2008. At around the same time, PASOS decided to take a closer look at the democracy assistance poli- cies of both the EU and the new member states, so that our contribution to the debate on democracy assistance would be based on hard data, and an evaluation of the new members’ record to date. This is how the project, Evaluation of the Democracy Assistance Policies and Priorities of the Visegrad Countries, came to life, resulting in this book, Democracy’s New ­Champions, and a series of policy briefs, and extended reports on the policies of each Visegrad country (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland) and on the impact of their Democracy'S New Champions 4 Jacek Kucharczyk and Jeff Lovitt (editors) 5 Introduction Evaluating Democracy Assistance Policies - Jeff Lovitt democracy assistance efforts in four target countries (Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, A second set of roundtables were held in the Visegrad Four countries - a further round to Cuba, and Ukraine). This publication includes those reports, which are also individually test the evolving policy recommendations emerging from the project. The results are the available at www.pasos.org, in some cases in a longer version. final reports and this book,Democracy’s New champions. The project has benefited from a combination of open meetings, and also off-the-record meetings with represent atives of The project was made possible with the financial support of the International Visegrad the Visegrad Four embassies, in addition to the extensive interviews carried out by the Fund1, the Open Society Institute Think-Tank Fund2 , and the Local Government and Public respective researchers. In the interests of protecting the security of some interviewees in Service Reform Initiative (LGI) of the Open Society Institute.3 Cuba and Belarus, their names have not been included in this publication. The project involved four PASOS members from the Visegrad countries, namely EUROPEUM The timing of the project opens up some important opportunities to influence the Visegrad Institute for European Policy, Czech Republic, the Center for Policy Studies at the Central Four’s policies in the field of democracy assistance, not least because both in Poland and European University, Hungary, the Institute of Public Affairs, Poland, and the Institute for in Hungary a new national democracy assistance strategy is currently being finalised, in Public Affairs, Slovakia. Researchers from another PASOS member, the International Cen- Slovakia a new director of the Slovak Agency for International Development Co-operation tre for Policy Studies in Ukraine, also participated in the project, along with independent (SAMRS) has just taken office, and the Czech Republic is about to hold the EU Presidency researchers who worked on the evaluation of the Visegrad Four countries’ democracy in the first half of 2009 - at a time when EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, EU-Russia assistance policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, and Cuba. relations, and the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours are among the top agenda items of the Czech Presidency. For the purpose of our research, we have defined democracy assistance as “a policy aimed at helping third countries build institutions of democratic governance, foster public PASOS will also continue at the EU level to work with the EPD and the democracy caucus participation in democratic governance, support pluralism in the shape of multi-party in the European Parliament to make further recommendations for the review of the Euro- politics, freedom of expression and independent media, promote and protect human pean Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights, and to push for greater flexibility and rights, and work towards establishing the rule of law”. direct support to civil society working in repressive regimes. The methodology underpinning the research
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