Tag: Liberal democracy
Media Literacy Index: Bulgaria is the least able to resist fake news
Bulgaria is the country in the European Union most unable to withstand the negative effects of fake news and most vulnerable in the fight against it. This shows the Media Literacy Index for 2022, prepared in the framework of the European Policy Initiative (EuPI) of the Open Society Institute – Sofia, and assesses the potential […]
Don’t expand NATO. Break it down
Decisions made at the summit include inviting Sweden and Finland to become NATO’s 31st and 32nd members, increasing “high readiness” forces to over 300,000, more money in general, and of course more money for non-EU Ukraine. its conflict with Russia. None of this, of course, “keeps the peace” or “prevents conflicts,” and given the Alliance’s […]
Election: a global ranking ranks the United States as the weakest among liberal democracies
Defending democracy has suddenly become one of the central challenges of our time. The land war in Ukraine considered general a front line between autocratic rule and democratic freedom. The United States continues to absorb the meaning of the riot that took place on January 6, 2021 in an attempt to overthrow the results of […]
Wednesday’s newspapers: Wolt sold, tax day, Niinistö in Belarus
Finland has a tax date when all tax data for 2020 will be published. The magazines are, as always, full of tax-related stories, but one big business news is also on the news list on Wednesday: the takeover of courier company Wolt from American rival DoorDash. Helsingin sanomat newspaper says the deal is worth seven […]
Swastikas fly both ways: Election poster vandals use them to target both left- and right-wing candidates
The 83rd anniversary of The Night of Broken Glass, a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazis on 9-10. November 1938, approaching: a signal for anti-Semites across the country to carry out heinous vandalism. Just two years ago, they desecrated the 80 tombstones in Randers – just one of many cities targeted in the […]
337: The smoking gun in KU
What was Sweden’s strategy for meeting the corona pandemic – and was it formally decided? In this week’s episode of the podcast, we try to get an answer to the question that KU has struggled with since January In addition, so bids we enter an improvised political science seminar and immerse ourselves in the Social […]
Tomas Ramberg: The dream of the alliance resurfacing is not realistic
There is a dream within all the phalanxes of the Liberals to re-establish the bourgeois alliance. The question is whether there are any realistic government alternatives at all for the party. The party board’s majority proposal raises more question marks than it answers – but had it been clearer, it would not have been able […]
Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandatory? Two experts discuss
To be properly protective, COVID-19 vaccines must be given to most people worldwide. Only through extensive vaccination can we reach flock immunity – where enough people are immune to prevent the disease from spreading freely. To achieve this, some have suggested that vaccines should be made mandatory, although the British Government has done so excludes […]
Is there gratitude for Trump?
If Trump leaves the post in January, one question remains: How did he participate? The obvious answer is that he weakened and emptied democracy. At the same time, you can point out that he did a service to democracy by bringing us an idea of its vulnerability and vulnerability. Already the Athenians were aware that […]
