“Europe’s democratic environment and democratic institutions are in mutually reinforcing decline”, warns Marija Pejčinović Burić. “Often, it pre-dates the emergence of coronavirus. However, there is no doubt that legitimate actions taken by national authorities in response to Covid-19 have compounded this trend. The danger now is that our democratic culture will not fully recover”.
In her 156-page report published yesterday, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe draws...