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Recommendation 5

2nd Report - A cautious embrace: defending democracy in an age of autocracies Published 5 Nov 2019 Paragraph 25 Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that the Government engages in dialogue with Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US to explore ways to protect universities from attempts by autocracies to use their financial muscle to leverage influence through the withdrawal of funding. This could take place through existing structures such as the Commonwealth.

From: Foreign Affairs Committee, 2nd Report - A cautious embrace: defending democracy in an age of autocracies (HC 109), paragraph 25, 5 November 2019

Government response

No government response is linked to this report.