Democracy Impacts

UK Prime Minister to Revive the British Bill of Rights

November 07, 2022

As new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sets his agenda, including handling the intensifying migrant crisis, he will revive the British Bill of Rights in order to give the UK courts supremacy over the European Court of Human Rights, based in Strasbourg, France.
Strasbourg Airport’s Deal with Chinese Tech Firm Raises Concerns for EU Parliament Members

October 18, 2022

Strasbourg Airport deal with Chinese tech firm Nuctech is causing concern with European Parliament members who fear that the firm would be subject to China's state control, open up cybersecurity risks and allow Chinese authorities access to passenger and commercial information.
EU Crisis Chief Calls for More Power for the Bloc

August 17, 2022

The European Union’s head of Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič pushes a change to current EU treaty that would allow an expansion of the blocs power, opening the door to its own civil force.
EU Ministers Approve Landmark Climate Measures

June 29, 2022

EU governments backed efforts to cut emissions after seventeen hours of negotiations between the bloc’s national environment ministers who agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent this decade moving the proposal forward to go before the European Parliament.
Politico: Orbán Declares State of Emergency Due to War in Ukraine

May 25, 2022

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has declared a state of Emergency to enable a rapid response to challenges created by the war in Ukraine in an effort, according to the Prime Minister, to protect Hungary and Hungarian families by all possible means possible.
Macron appoints Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne as his Prime Minister

May 18, 2022

Following the resignation of French prime minister Jean Castex, President Emmanuel Macron has chosen Elisabeth Borne, a left-leaning technocrat, to lead his new government and will be in charge of steering through Macron’s controversial pension reform.
Politico: Nerves for EU and NATO as Le Pen Faces Macron In French Vote

April 13, 2022

The European Union and NATO are watching with interest as France heads to the voting booths in two weeks to decide if President Macron will be re-elected or Marine Le Pen, whose potential win will impact the current plans of each entity.
EU Launches Process to Slash Hungary’s Funds Over Accusations of Rule-of-Law Breaches

April 06, 2022

Just two days after the re-election of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to his fourth consecutive term, the European Commission announced it will trigger a powerful new mechanism to cut funding to Hungary who is accused of eroding the bloc’s rule-of-law standards.
EU Top Court Decision Prepares a Way to Cut Funding to Poland and Hungary

February 16, 2022

The European Court of Justice dismissed challenges from Warsaw and Budapest against an EU sanction that would stop funding to members of the bloc who break EU law, paving the way for Brussels to cut billions of euros of funds to Poland and Hungary, who are accused of violating democratic rights.
Poland Attempts to Cool Legal Conflicts with EU

February 07, 2022

In the ongoing battle between Poland and the European Union, Polish President Andrzej Duda traveled to Brussels to meet Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Council chief Charles Michel with a bill aimed at ending the standoff after the Court of Justice fined the central European country €1 million per day for refusing to comply with EU directives concerning the polish disciplinary chamber.