Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is on a quest to remake European politics by seizing the mantle of European Christian Democracy and exporting his illiberal ideology, Amanda Coakley writes for… Read more »
After weeks of watching massive peaceful demonstrations against neighboring Belarus’s authoritarian regime, Poles have finally taken to the streets to confront their own illiberal government, says Sławomir Sierakowski, founder… Read more »
‘A Dictatorship Is Being Created’: An Interview with Lech Wałęsa https://t.co/U6rrtpxhQL via @nybooks — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) September 3, 2020 The current democratic crisis demonstrates that “we are between… Read more »
Belarus: Lessons from Polish Solidarity https://t.co/colC8cgOHW — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 31, 2020 Lech Walesa on Monday warned against populism as his deeply divided country marked 40 years since a… Read more »
The political and ideological project being implemented by Poland’s populist governing party, Law and Justice (PiS), has a long way to run. The re-election of the party’s candidate Andrzej Duda to… Read more »
Lessons from the Polish Opposition by Jacek Rostowski @ProSyn https://t.co/gqWHgarDUK — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) July 13, 2020 Although Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski did not come out on top… Read more »
Lech Walesa, the hero of Poland’s uprising against communism, has warned that the country’s right-wing ruling party is dismantling the foundations of democracy and seeking “a return to the Middle… Read more »
Amid the turmoil and fear caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Central and Eastern European populists are wasting no time sowing division and attempting to cement their positions. Hungarian Prime Minister… Read more »
Did Central Europe’s democratic forces defeat one form of authoritarianism, but fail to anticipate other threats to freedom? The post-Cold War disruption in job markets, economic inequities, and disputes over… Read more »
Authoritarians are resurgent because of the failure to create a new global system of democratic values, said former Solidarnosc leader and Polish president Lech Walesa. “Polish democracy in practical terms… Read more »