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USA
Euroviews. The US isn't close to becoming another Poland or Hungary - yet | View
Professor Krugman is right to be concerned given President Trump's ongoing attacks on democratic norms in the US and the Republican party's complicity in those attacks, but I don't agree that we are close to becoming another Poland or Hungary.
Hungary
Euroviews. Fidesz's future, Article 7 - Two questions to Hungarian MEPs | View
SZANYI: “I can only hope that finally the EPP leaders will prove to have sufficient political will, and leverage on Orbán to respect European values.”
MOLNÁR: “I believe that the EPP should have launched the exclusion of Fidesz from its community a long time ago.”
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Poland
Euroviews. Poland's democracy is being boiled to death while the world watches
Polish democracy is being subject to the boiling frog strategy via the adoption of unconstitutional legislation without, however, any risk for the ruling party as effective constitutional review has now been neutralised.
Armenia
Armenia’s changing political system: a parliamentary republic or the President’s third term?
Armenia is completing its transition to a parliamentary system of government, that the ruling coalition has lauded as a step towards greater democracy. But many argue the change has simply been high-jacked to extend former President Serzh Sargsyan's grip on power.
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