NATIONS IN TRANSIT 2024 - A Region Reordered by Autocracy and Democracy

In Bosnia The only country among the Hybrid Regimes with an and Herzegovina, the recriminalization of defamation by improved Democracy Score was Ukraine, which continued the Republika Srpska entity in July, as part of a series of to make considerable progress in building up judicial concerning legislation on the media and civil society, put and anticorruption institutions and actively investigatin. [...] As the current centrifugal trends continue to in Slovakia and Czechia hung in the balance in 2023, due to intensify, each of these countries will have to choose its the reelection of a populist prime minister in the former and path carefully, and democratic powers will need to fine-tune ongoing economic turmoil in the latter. [...] ambitious initiatives to protect the media market against owner influence, improve the efficacy and transparency of the Constitutional Court, and hold Babiš to account for Everything, everywhere, all at once alleged fraud have stalled, and the government has been Given the magnitude of the erosion in Poland’s democratic unable to reinvigorate the ailing Czech economy, harming its institutions over. [...] However, in some cases the threats also clarify work of the parliament while in opposition and was favored the stakes of democratization and help to end harmful to win the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections. [...] Some fear that a hard-right turn in the urgent external threats, which have forced them to confront European Parliament, spurred by the strength of illiberal their long-term neglect of an essential tool for protecting and Kremlin-sympathizing parties in the western half of the democracy and human rights: investment in military defense union, could jeopardize the considerable progress the EU and pr.