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Democratic backslide a threat to free elections globally
Over half of the 60 countries holding national elections this year are experiencing a democratic decline, risking the integrity of the electoral process, as reported in the latest Democracy Report from the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg. The worsening election quality is concerning, given the pivotal role elections play in either reinforcing or…
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Beware the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
The questioning of “enlarging and strengthening Europe” is again in the news, with the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Annalena Baerbock embarking on a trip to the Western Balkans this week to hold talk on EU enlargement policy with 6 Balkan states. Ongoing instability in Europe has been the EU placing enlargement as an…
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Preserving Rule by the People for the People: Combatting Democratic Backsliding in Eastern Europe
International action is urgently needed on these issues. In recent years, the trend of democratic backsliding has been a troubling one which has been particularly apparent in Eastern Europe. Following the collapse of the USSR in 1991, many post-Soviet states countries such as Moldova were portrayed as shining examples of democratic transitions. Many of these are…
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2023 CPJ prison census shows incarceration of journalists near record high
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) 2023 prison census shows near-record levels of journalist imprisonment, with Israel jumping from being tied at 24th place to ranking at sixth place amongst the world’s leading jailers of journalists. The census revealed the top five jailers of journalists as China, Myanmar, Belarus, Russia and Vietnam, respectively. Israel’s journalist imprisonment rate ascended to…
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Political Corruption In Europe: A Threat To More Than Public Funds
Undue influence on both national and European Union politicians is a danger to vital services, public safety and democracy
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‘We cannot give a free ride for spying’: the EU official out to protect European media
Věra Jourová is on a mission to defend media independence. The EU Commissioner for values and transparency was raised under communist rule and knows first-hand what life is like without a free press. Investigate Europe sat down with the Czech politician to discuss her plans for the landmark EU Media Freedom Act and the growing threats…
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The EU’s migration policies and the end of human rights in Europe
The direction Brussels is taking on migration policies risks eroding the international legal order. In January, Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis featured prominently at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Among the various topics, he was asked to comment on was migration. “Greece has probably managed the migration problem better than most other European countries,”…
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Fifty years later, the Helsinki process stands as a turning point for human rights in Europe
In September 1973, participants from nearly three dozen countries met in Geneva to begin the substantive working phase of negotiations as part of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). Fifty years later, these negotiations have had an unlikely legacy that neither the CSCE’s critics nor its proponents would have guessed at the…
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