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Prime Minister Janez Janša was criticised by Žiga Faktor of the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy for overseeing democratic backsliding in Slovenia. Faktor claimed that Janša had aligned Slovenia closely with Hungary, denied journalists access to information during the COVID-19 pandemic , and had expanded his Slovenian Democratic Party ...
The United States and the EU have voiced alarm at what they see as democratic backsliding by Georgia, a South Caucasus country of 3.7 million people that lies at the intersection of Europe and ...
Democratic backsliding [a] is a process of regime change toward autocracy in which the exercise of political power becomes more arbitrary and repressive. [7] [8] [9] The process typically restricts the space for public contest and political participation in the process of government selection.
Some democratic backsliding can be observed in parts of Europe, including Hungary and Poland. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The V-Dem Democracy Report identified for the year 2023 Montenegro and Kosovo as cases of stand-alone democratization and North Macedonia as a case of U-Turn democratization, while Poland as a small but statistically insignificant uptick in ...
It says it remains committed to seeking a future in the European Union, but the EU says it has frozen Georgia's membership application because of concerns about democratic backsliding.
He said Orban's Hungary, which has also been accused of democratic backsliding, shared the Georgian ruling party's core values of "family, traditions, statehood, sovereignty, peace".
At the same time, the Mitvim Institute initiated the "Liberal Partnership", which followed its research project on "Democratic Backsliding and Securitization: Challenges for Israel, the EU and Israel-Europe Relations". [7] This research focused on what is described as illiberal trends and democratic backsliding in both Europe and Israel.
The EU added 10 new members in 2004 and later three more, but enthusiasm waned as EU governments voiced concerns about east-to-west migration and democratic backsliding in some newer members. Then ...