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dcterms:Date	"2012-03-29"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120329.36.4-345-016"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Andrzej Grzyb2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; DROI (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ITRE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) will be a key institution enabling Europe to make a contribution to the democratisation of authoritarian states, both in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood and throughout the world. The report which has been adopted today gives the rapporteur, Mr Lambsdorff – and I would like to offer him my sincere compliments – a strong negotiating mandate in the work of the European External Action Service’s EED Working Group. The EED should be a fund which works in close cooperation with, but remaining independent of, the European Union. The EED should be built on expert knowledge, allowing its reactions to be fast and flexible. The fund’s purpose will be to build civil society and the political potential of the democratic opposition before and during transformation from authoritarianism to democracy. The EED should therefore also support non-registered opposition groups because it is these groups which usually are not recognised and are opposed by undemocratic states. The lack of such an instrument was exposed by the events of the Arab Spring, for example, when it became apparent that the only strong opposition political players in the countries of the region were religious groups. As for our Eastern neighbours, significant assistance is needed by the opposition in Belarus, for example. I would like to remind everyone that the EED was proposed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The idea to establish the EED is based on Poland’s experience of democratic transformation. Financial assistance from the West enabled Poland’s Solidarity movement and other opposition groups – which were not recognised by the Communist regime and officially did not exist – to develop and to fight for democratic change. We now ought also to give a similar opportunity to others."@en1

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