By George Soros* – Project Syndicate German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been laboring under enormous pressure to prevent a veto of the European Union’s 2021-27 budget and COVID-19 recovery fund. But the compromise she reached with Hungary and Poland is the worst of all possible…
By Mate Varga* – The Guardian Democracy is seriously under threat in our countries. The EU must stand up to the bullying tactics of Orbán and Morawiecki As European leaders gather in Brussels this week municipal buildings and monuments in Warsaw and Budapest have been lit up in…
By Bill Powell – Newsweek Grievance politics comes naturally to Donald Trump. Four years ago he rode populist resentment about illegal immigration, foreign trade, and culture-war issues like same-sex marriage and the “war on Christmas” all the way to the White…
Glickman* – Boston Review If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said? For many conservative pundits, the election of Donald Trump marked the moment…
Opinion, by George Danby – Bangor Daily News (*) The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. “There is nothing wrong to participate in a sex…
By David Walsh – Euronews The resignation of a scandal-embroiled politician is always going to make political waves and headline news. But what sets the case of Hungarian MEP József Szájer apart is not just the nature of the scandal he finds himself at the centre of…
Editorial Clemency is a noble quality, but in Donald Trump’s hands it risks being a self-serving abuse of law and due process A US president’s power to pardon and commute sentences for federal offences seems to explode America’s claims as a nation of laws and proper process…
Editorial The real issue is the Trump administration’s actions over the last four years, but the risks may be growing as it heads for the exit As any dramatist could tell you, when can be as important as what. The assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh…
By Deutsche Welle (DW) The nationalist governments of Hungary, Poland and other EU members have lost a kindred spirit with Donald Trump’s defeat. Will they have to rethink their strategy?
By Diego Lopes da Silva* STOCKHOLM, Nov 27 2020 (IPS) – Autocracies are once again the global majority. The 2020 Democracy Report of the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-DEM), ‘Autocratization surges, resistance grows’, raises the alarm that while the world in 2019 was…
