📢PUBLICATION ALERT📢 Check out our latest REDEMOS Horizon Europe Project blogpost by Ragnar Weilandt, this time on the state of 🇬🇪's political party system ahead of the legislative October elections 👇👇👇👇 redemos.eu/2024/09/13/geo… #Georgia #Democracy #EUEasternNeighbourhood

The outpouring of support for ⁦BBC HARDtalk⁩ over the last 48 hours has been extraordinary. Thank you. We are proud of our journalism. And it’s great to know how much it is appreciated worldwide The BBC is foolish to axe HARDtalk - New Statesman newstatesman.com/politics/media…

📣 Join us on 30 October, 13:00 CET, for our #REDEMOS_eu webinar “Democracy at a Crossroads: Examining the Parliamentary Elections in Georgia” to be held four days after Georgia’s legislative elections. Speakers: Dr. Hans Gutbrod (Ilia State University) & Nino Dolidze

Tbilisi, Georgia

Opposition protests in Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue conclude with Ode to joy

More than 200,000 people (about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation) have canceled their The Washington Post digital subscriptions over owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block Harris endorsement npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-…

Not a fan of newspapers endorsing politicians, but surely this is the worst possible time to stop

New statement by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Fontelles on #GeorgiaElection: “International observers reported violations during the election campaign as well as on election day. They have also not declared the elections to be free and fair” eeas.europa.eu/eeas/georgia-s…

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

The world’s richest man Elon Musk is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin. (In collaboration with Zentrum für Politische Schönheit)

But her emails theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

It’s Tuesday, it’s newsletter day. But this time it’s very different. I am telling a story about my family, about Europe, about third time lucky and why Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty means so much to me and so many others. The fight for its survival continues rferl.org/a/rferl-usagm-…

"Virtually every person on the "Houthi PC small group" chat, incl. the heads of the CIA & the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, have publicly gone on record to say breaches of security protocol should be dealt with harshly & immediately." eu.usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

No, but I bet you do. x.com/YouTube/status…

Tunisia was the one Arab country that saw a sustainable political transition following the 2011 uprisings. Until 2021. Here is my take on why and how the country's democratic decade ended: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Fortunately it was later rather than sooner youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmh…

"You will go far in life Jenny. But you will not be well liked." #Badenoch bbc.com/news/articles/…