16.01.2023
Visegrad Beyond Orbán’s Orbit

An analysis of the deepening gulf in the Central European grouping and Hungary’s waning influence.

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09.07.2021
“The Most Challenging Term Since 1989”: Uphill Struggle for the Polish Greens

Green MP Urszula Zielinska discusses issues shaping political debate in Poland and the prospect of the 2023 elections.

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18.12.2020
The Rule of Law Compromise: The EU’s Gift to Autocrats

While it has been framed as a success, the EU budget deal represents an alarming blow to the European Commission’s power to uphold the rule of law.

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04.11.2020
Europe’s Blind Spot: The Movement Against Corruption in Bulgaria

The EU may turn a blind eye to attacks on rule of law by the Bulgarian government, but its people are demanding an end to endemic corruption.

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10.10.2019
Rule of Law in Limbo

Under the incoming von der Leyen Commission, political will shall determine whether the core EU value of rule of law is protected.

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09.05.2019
A Matter of Human Rights: Malta’s Experience of Migration

The founder of Maltese NGO aditus foundation discusses challenges to protect the human rights of arriving migrants and the erosion of rule of law.

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13.03.2019
Transnational Democracy? A Piece of Cake

The story of how people won back individual democratic rights from illiberal governments and designed institutions that would protect them for good.

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27.02.2019
Utopia and Democracy in the European Republic

An interview on transnational democracy, identity, and why European politics can no longer pursue business as usual.

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08.02.2019
Stopping the Domino Effect: the EU Response to Hungarian Authoritarianism

The long-overdue triggering of Article 7 is one of the EU’s last shots at saving rule of law in Hungary and across Europe.

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10.01.2019
How Orbán Manipulates Markets to Suppress Hungary’s Opposition

In Viktor Orbán’s self-styled illiberal democracy, power is maintained through patronage and cronyism built around public jobs and EU money.

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