Project Manager: David Král, Vladimír Bartovic
Timeframe: completed (August – December 2007)
Executive Summary:
The aim of the project was to ensure the transmission of important relevant experience of Czech non-governmental organizations from pre-accession process to their Ukraine's partners and thereby contribute to strengthening the position of supporters of the "European vector" of the future direction of Ukraine. These experiences relate to the role, scope and activities of civil society in the process of European integration, regardless of whether it is a process of enlargement (Czech experience) or a general alignment with the EU under the ENP (Ukrainian reality).
Partners:
Donetsk Youth Debate Centre, Ukraine
Donors:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
East East Program: Partnership beyond borders Open Society Fund Prague

This collection of articles, compiled by Democracy Reporting International (DRI) and Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM, responds to requests made by some Arab reformers to deepen their knowledge of how political change in Eastern Europe unfolded. Rather than focussing on the successful transitions, it presents case studies which recall the difficulties, pitfalls and political missteps which jeopardised these countries’ transitions and even caused some of them to fail.
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