This story is from Democracy Digest, the National Endowment for Democracy’s daily blog:

Despite such worrying trends, individuals living in difficult and repressive political environments retain hope that they may aspire to a better future, evident in large-scale protests in Algeria, Lebanon, and the Western Balkans which spoke of deep dissatisfaction with corrupt and autocratic regimes and challenged the status quo, notes David McAllister, Chair of the EED Board of Governors and Member of the European Parliament. These protests send a powerful message to us Europeans at a time of moral crisis at home.

• • A pdf version of the 2019 Annual Report is available for download here.
  • An interactive version of the annual report provides for an optimised online reader experience, with hyperlinked initiatives mentioned in the report.

• • EED ‘s work in specific regions is detailed in a map-based interactive version of the report that allows the reader to browse through initiatives funded over the past year

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