European states and the European institutions are key providers of development assistance and by extension democracy support. Through a comparative approach, the study explores the state of democracy support in policy and funding of 12 European countries: the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The paper looks specifically at the policy documents of the aforementioned countries to assess where democracy fits within foreign policy priorities, what the logic is behind a country’s support for democracy, and how the funding dedicated to democracy abroad is structured.
