{"id":2664,"date":"2022-03-31T14:04:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T07:40:55","slug":"joint-statement-on-the-ukraine-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"Joint statement on the Ukraine crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are at a critical juncture for the future of the European Union and democracy globally. The Russian war of aggression shows that authoritarian rule is a global security problem for states, businesses and people everywhere. Democracy support needs to be a European strategic priority.<\/p>\n<p>Elbarlament, together with the other members of the European Partnership of Democracy (EPD) have come together to call on EU institutions and European governments to respond to the crisis with a democracy-focused approach in the short term while developing a far more strategic approach to supporting democracy globally in the long term. To this end, we have two sets of actionable recommendations:<\/p>\n<p><b>Respond to the crisis with a democracy-focused approach<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bolster Ukraine\u2019s democratic institutions<\/li>\n<li>Invest in Ukrainian civil society<\/li>\n<li>Support independent media organisations and journalists in Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Support drivers of change in Russia and Belarus<\/li>\n<li>Give a meaningful EU membership perspective to Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova without taking shortcuts on democracy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ensure democracy is a cornerstone of geopolitical strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make democracy a top strategic priority in foreign policy<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen democracy at home<\/li>\n<li>Support the work and the integrity of independent journalists and media organisations to counter disinformation<\/li>\n<li>Combat corruption and kleptocracy<\/li>\n<li>Use Team Europe Democracy to improve coordination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full statement <a href=\"https:\/\/epd.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/epd-recommendations-on-ukraine-2022-03-24.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elbarlament, together with the other members of the European Partnership of Democracy (EPD) have come together to call on EU institutions and European governments to respond to the crisis with a democracy-focused approach in the short term while developing a far more strategic approach to supporting democracy globally in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbarlament.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}