Democracy in Southeastern Europe is struggling as Romania becomes the EU’s only “hybrid regime” amid rising ultranationalism, controversial political figures and ongoing protests across the region, all fuelled by Moscow and Washington.
Democracy in Southeastern Europe is struggling as Romania becomes the EU’s only “hybrid regime” amid rising ultranationalism, controversial political figures and ongoing protests across the region, all fuelled by Moscow and Washington.
The extreme concentrations of power in fewer and fewer individuals that we see in many countries is definitely one driver of global fascism.
But russian influence operations is another big driver, as are increasing poverty and general resource-stress and anxiety brought about by climate crisis and the stasis inflicted by incompetent governments which haven’t produced meaningful, beneficial change for their people in decades.