In his 2017 report on democracy, human rights and the rule of law, published on Friday 21 April, Thorbjørn Jagland, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (COE), asks, “how strong are Europe’s checks and balances” to tackle populism?
In his introduction, Mr Jagland says that populism is too often used as “a catch-all label for every person or movement, which rocks the establishment” and that they need an appropriate definition of the word. The COE Secretary General...