Marking the first year of the Reporting Democracy initiative, BIRN’s Democracy After Coronavirus report highlights the key “signals to watch” as the political and social consequences of the coronavirus crisis come screeching into view. Democracy After Coronavirus seeks to examine the political implications of the pandemic. The report presents 7 significant trends likely to have a lasting impact: autocratic contagion in the exercise of power; assaults on transparency and media freedom; infectious disregard for the rule of law; growing challenges for civil society; ideological entrenchment and polarization; profound demographic and social change; heightened geopolitical tensions and a fractious Europe Read more here.
Source: Balkan Insight