Beginning of the end for CEE populists?
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), wants to adopt a resolution in defense of liberal democracies, Euronews reports. The largest political grouping in the EU is reacting to mounting… Read more »
Category: Europe
Kateryna Handziuk’s legacy: Ukrainian civil society combats corruption
Ukraine’s Parliament began its morning plenary with a moment of silence for anti-corruption Kateryna Handziuk, who has died following an acid attack according to 112 Ukraine. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has… Read more »
Serbia convicts youth activist critics of war criminals
Serbia’s Misdemeanor Appellate Court has confirmed an earlier ruling against eight Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) activists for “disturbing public peace” during an event in Beska in January 2017,… Read more »
Developing ‘immunity’ to populism?
Portuguese “immunity” to populism has been strong, compared to the trends in other European Union member states, Isabel Marques da Silva writes for Euronews: But mainstream political parties should be vigilant… Read more »
Conservative civil society pushing back against Western liberal norms
The rapid rise of Brazil’s new far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro may have surprised some observers but it did not come out of thin air. His success follows years of support… Read more »
Defending Digital Democracy via Election Cybersecurity Scorecard
More than 120 state and local election officials, communications directors, IT managers, and secretaries of state ran drills simulating security catastrophes that could happen on the worst Election Day imaginable,… Read more »
In ‘an authoritarian era’, how to advance democracy?
There’s a rising angst in foreign policy circles over the status of democracy around the world, CNBC reports. “This is an authoritarian era, all things being equal. Democracy is in… Read more »
How to save liberal democracy from populism
Across the world, liberal democracy is rumored to be under threat from the rise of autocratic regimes and populist politics [or simply facing a mid-life crisis?]. But if this… Read more »
Hacks, leaks & disruptions: Russia – from digital outlier to cyberpower
A set of measures to defend digital democracies against disinformation campaigns, hackers and cyberattacks is urgently required, according to Hacks, leaks and disruptions: Russian cyber strategies, a new report from… Read more »
How social democracy lost its way
The crisis facing Germany’s Social Democrats is shared with advanced democracies’ traditional big-tent parties on both the left and right, according to The FT’s Tobias Buck: The party lacks a great… Read more »