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national parliaments are female, which might not seem so bad
On April 5, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) introduced a new currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), backed by 2,522 kg of gold and US$100 million in foreign currency reserves. Despite the declining use of the gold standard globally, Zimbabwe adopted this system to de-dollarise its economy and address currency and exchange rate issues, which saw the previous Zimbabwean dollar lose about 114% of its value between January and March 2024.
fundamental challenges such as unsustainable debt levels, bad
The draft „transparency of foreign influence“ law in Georgia poses a severe threat to civil society and democratic freedoms. With ambiguous definitions, excessive scope, and draconian penalties, the law enables arbitrary enforcement to repress any kind of dissent ahead of the 2024 elections. Non-profit entities receiving over 20% foreign funding must register, subjecting them to intrusive inspections and devastating fines.
The Georgian law exhibits numerous hallmarks of bad-faith
In June, the most prominent issues in Poland once again centered on elections, this time for the European Parliament. Donald Tusk’s coalition emerged victorious, thereby ending a long streak of wins for the PiS party. Another significant concern was security, notably due to the ongoing tensions along the Belarusian-Polish border. Additionally, new conflicts have arisen in Polish-German relations.
Kosiniak-Kamysz on this incident resulted in a very bad
This policy paper identifies and highlights relevant actions and strategies enacted by Malaysia through bilateral and multilateral platforms. These include the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the group of former British colonies of the Commonwealth, the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) and the loosely formed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) between Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
China are good, although China presents itself as a bad
Disinformers are amplifying fears of European totalitarianism and World War III, particularly by exploiting a recent European Parliament resolution lifting restrictions on Ukrainian military actions. Far-right figures like Milan Uhrík and Milan Mazurek have revived rhetoric blaming the West for provoking conflict and glorifying Russia, while Slovak government officials shift blame for economic woes onto opposition parties through manipulative narratives.
However, it is not just bad timing – the leader of
There is an Urge for new political strategies in democracies. The role of elections as an institution whose aim is to protect, strengthen, and foster democracy has been increasingly and continuously undermined for years in many of the countries Freedom Barometer analysed. Find out more in the analysis by our comparative index ‘Freedom Barometer’ in its 10-year anniversary edition ‚A Lost Decade of Reforms?‘.
, countries which had from 2014 onwards “gotten a bad
A new populist party has rocked the political landscape in the Netherlands by winning the provincial elections last Wednesday. The BoerBurgerBeweging (Farmer-Citizen Movement/BBB) won more than one in five votes nationwide, with a campaign that capitalised on rural anger at the current government’s environmental policies. The result will put pressure on the government’s ability to pass legislation, as the provincial elections determine the makeup of the Dutch Senate, and may lead to increased tensions within the four=party governing coalition.
But it is not all bad news, as the far-right party
As a whole, liberalism as a word has not reached a wider proportion of the community as only half of the respondents have heard about the term itself. There are no significant changes in this aspect for the past five years as the percentage of the population who have heard about liberalism sustained around 50% except for year 2018 when the percentage of people who have heard of liberalism was at its highest (61%).
To a great extent, many view “liberalism” as a bad
Ever since I joined the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF Bangladesh) at the Dhaka office, I heard wonderful stories from people who had attended the International Academy for Leadership (IAF). I would see eyes lit up and faces glow when these people shared their experiences. I listened in awe and wondered, “When would I get the chance to go to Gummersbach?”
I am bad at hiding my feelings.
