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Freedom Trends

Political Freedom: 10 Years of Freedom Barometer

Political freedom is most wanted. A decade of measuring freedom by the Freedom Barometer Index was a decade of decline in political freedom. The wave of building, strengthening, and shaping liberal and democratic societies all over Europe, itself started after the fall of the Iron Curtain, was interrupted by an outburst of autocratic tendencies in recent years, causing a deterioration of freedom on the political playground. Find out more in the analysis by our comparative index ‘Freedom Barometer’ in its 10-year anniversary edition 'A Lost Decade of Reforms?'.

Free and Fair Elections: 10 Years of Freedom Barometer

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?'.

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Absence of Unconstitutional Veto Players: 10 Years Freedom Barometer

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Press Freedom: 10 Years Freedom Barometer

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Corruption: 10 Years Freedom Barometer

MENAPOL Blog

Aftermath of Gulf Countries Normalizing Relations with Israel

Ties between these two Gulf states and Israel predate the Abraham Accords. The UAE has previously relied on Israeli technology in areas of cyber-security, and the UAE and Israel have also cooperated in intelligence-sharing. The Accords bring into the open – and accelerate – existing ties between them and facilitate the expansion of these ties in the economy, trade, tourism, healthcare, and certainly security. It remains to be seen what specific kinds of security cooperation will emerge as a result of the Accords.

EU-policy

Corona – A Silent Cry for Unity

In these days of skyrocketing COVID-19 infection rates, the image of the wave is rhetorically booming. Waves roll in, are supposed to break and the tsunami like ones sometimes even swallow any kind of defence efforts. Spain is imposing a state of emergency for several months, France is closing down completely, Germany is imposing a so-called lock-down light. And Brussels? What is happening in political Europe?

MENAPOL Blog

In Jordan’s Elections, Citizens’ Distrust is the Winner

Less than 30% of Jordanian eligible voters casted their ballots in the parliamentary elections of 10 November. As predicted, the low turnout confirms the failure of an election celebrated in a bad timing and which deepens the institutional crisis that the country is living in.

MENAPOL Blog

To Be or Not to Be

The kidnapping, rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy in Tangier has ignited calls for the execution of the perpetrator. The child called Adnane was abducted from close to his home in broad daylight and his body later buried in a park. The barbarous crime has stirred a national debate...