Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
NED is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to advancing freedom and democracy worldwide. Established in 1983 as part of President Reagan’s vision to foster an “infrastructure of democracy” with a bipartisan Congressional mandate, NED supports grassroots leaders striving for the freedom to think, speak, worship, engage politically, and support their families without fear. It mobilizes key pillars of American democracy, from political parties to business and labor, to support their counterparts abroad through the Core institutes that form the NED family: the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Center for International Private Enterprise, and the Solidarity Center.
EU Legislative Interests
NED does not lobby on any EU legislative proposals or policies. NED staff do, however, make themselves available to EU policymakers as leading experts on democracy assistance and pro-democracy movements around the world (especially in coordination with the European Endowment for Democracy) on the following topics: - Democratic governance in third countries - Support for civil society and human rights defenders globally - The importance of human rights, pro-democracy matters, and political pluralism in authoritarian contexts
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Relationship with EED: The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) was created to promote the European values of freedom and democracy; NED is a completely different entity to EED. NED does communicate and coordinate with EED on democracy programming and key events including the Transatlantic Democracy Support Dialogue (TDSD). Relationship with Core Institutes: The National Endowment for Democracy's four Core institutes—the International Republican Institute (IRI), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center)—are independent organizations, each with their own leadership, governance, and programmatic priorities. While the Core institutes receive a portion of NED's congressional appropriation to carry out democracy programming aligned with their respective areas of expertise, they operate autonomously and are not subsidiaries or divisions of NED. NED coordinates regularly with the Core institutes on strategic priorities, grantmaking, and key democracy promotion initiatives to ensure complementary and effective use of resources across the broader NED family.