Feisel, Franca Maria Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-6001-1428 Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-12-19 eng

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This blogpost unpacks some of the ‘democratic paradoxes’ that come with the ‘Defence of Democracy’ package (DoD package), which the European Commission published on Tuesday, 12th of December. While a Recommendation on promoting civic engagement and citizen participation (Civil Society Recommendation) reflects positive changes in the Commission’s conception of democracy, the ‘Directive establishing harmonised requirements in the internal market on transparency of interest representation carried out on behalf of third countries’ (Foreign Funding Directive) directly contradicts this emphasis on a more citizen-centred model and is illustrative of a broader dilemma: how to defend democracy in the EU’s multi-level constitutional space, while keeping the sensitive legal tools for doing so out of the hands of the enemies of democracy that are already – and for the time being irreversibly – on its inside. CC BY-SA 4.0 Feisel, Franca Maria civil society EU Commission European Union Foreign Agents Militant Democracy 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/one-step-forward-two-steps-back/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/8303905cd0dced61 231219 10.59704/8303905cd0dced61 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)