Alexander Lukashenko’s goose looks to be well and truly cooked. For the former chicken farmer who has run Belarus with a mixture of tough love and outright repression...
Tag - Freedom House
A growing number of leaders in emerging Europe have dropped even the pretence of playing by the rules of democracy. They openly attack democratic institutions and are...
Democracy and pluralism are under assault around the world, with authoritarianism and illiberal populism remaining key challenges to overcome in Europe and Eurasia, the...
International media and democracy watchdog Freedom House has said that the Serbian government is contributing to an environment of intimidation for the country’s...
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has said that Hungary faces many interconnected human rights challenges. “The space for the work of...
A selection of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which are well worth your time. Vlad Luca Filat, the son of a former prime minister...
Two emerging Europe countries, Hungary and Serbia, have been downgraded from ‘free’ to ‘partly free’ in the latest edition of the Freedom of the...
The latest Nations in Transit report, published by Freedom House, registered more falls in democracy scores than at any time project’s 23-year history: 19 of the 29...
In 2017 the Hungarian government assigned more than 65 billion forints (210 million euros) to advertising companies, tripling the budget planned four years ago. With...
