By Ifigenia Theodoridou Cyprus slipped three places in its score for the Democracy Index 2024, ranking 40th out of 167 ...

New research from the University of Southampton has found that trust in representative institutions, such as parliaments, governments and political parties, has been declining in democratic countries ...

Representative Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, told NBC News Tuesday that Democrats ...

Twenty per cent or more of people aged 18-44 told a recent survey that “a strong leader who doesn’t have to bother with elections” would be better in Britain than democracy.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has long advocated for “Swiss-style” direct democracy. What does the party hope ...

The Council of the European Union has appointed Eduards Stiprais as the new EU Special Representative (EUSR) for Central Asia ...

Countries such as the United States, France and Belgium are now considered to be “flawed democracies”, according to the index ...

It brings together results from 3,377 surveys covering 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, representing over five million survey respondents. Whereas trust in representative institutions is ...

The Council appointed a new EU Special Representative for Central Asia, and extended the mandate of the EUSR for the Gulf ...