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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


“In Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Slovakia, Israel, and the United States, just to name the most familiar examples, the erosion of democratic norms has been engineered by leaders claiming to speak in the name of, and with the authority of, the people,” the new report warned.

IDEA’s report bases its analysis on 173 countries and takes into account 17 metrics ranging from civil liberties to judicial independence to credible elections to the rule of law, using the most recent figures from 2022.

EU countries Hungary and Poland are still the “most notable examples illustrating the bloc’s limited ability to exert more direct influence over the (non-)democratic trajectory of its member states,” the report said.

Poland — which is set for a change of political direction after election results earlier this month that saw the ruling right-wing Law and Justice party defeated — might now be on a more positive trajectory.

In contrast to Hungary and Poland’s recent performance, other Central and Eastern European countries — such as Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Romania and Slovakia — are becoming the center of democratic growth in Europe due to notable five-year improvements, the report said.

According to the report: “Ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been implicated in schemes to shut down critical media and purchase positive coverage by using public funds through the Ministry of Finance.”


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[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is literally said in a "new report" every year of my life. I'm totally desensitized to this.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So the tactics work on you.

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Join and help the organization of your choice that actually wants to do something instead of just tread water.

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I donate to UNISEF and Wikipedia and write my congressperson. That's all I have in the tank.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's not about just O, T and E etc really.

It's about the average Westerner just loving to blabber about realpolitik and subjective interests on the subject of enabling richer and stronger cannibals against poorer and weaker humans.

And also about democratic countries having no immunity against foreign states buying their politicians and officials and the general population not really caring.

Jailing for life a few people who've been paid by Qatar, Azerbaijan, Russia, Israel etc would do wonders as an example to the rest.

Bombing their infrastructures when they start wars would also be nice. Most don't have WMD. Not for the realpolitikers, of course, that would have negative strategic and economical effect, but if your goal is preserving democracy and civilization, then there are plenty of places to be bombed right now without dancing all the quadrilles.

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