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22 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In a Substack article titled What to Watch For: Free Speech and the Free Press, Radley Balko examines the threats posed by Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policies toward press freedoms and free speech. Balko argues that Trump’s disdain for the free...
19 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Mariusz Próchniak and Ryszard Rapacki, in their European Policy Analysis report for the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS), examine the economic growth and income convergence of Central and Eastern European (CEE11) countries t...
18 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Professor Jesper Stroembaeck, famous for writing about media and democracy in Sweden, recently wrote in the daily progressive Dagens Arena (Today’s Arena) how internal threats to democracy are often led by elected leaders who gradually erode dem...
18 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR In his article on Verfassungsblog, Steve Peers examines recent rulings by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that strengthen EU citizens' rights to join political parties in member states where they reside. The judgments deemed l...
18 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR A recent report from the Centre for European Reform (CER) discusses the European Union's challenges and opportunities in implementing the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). Authored by Zach Meyers, the report critiques the EU's complex regul...
13 Dec 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Yezid Sayigh's "Anatomy of a Military Fall" from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Annie Slemrod's "Syria Faces Huge Humanitarian Challenges as It Begins Post-Assad Era" from The New Humanitarian examine the fall of Bashar al-A...
11 Dec 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR A report by The New Humanitarian titled "Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza" examines the severe impact of Israeli military actions on humanitarian operations in Gaza. The investigation highl...
10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR William Plowright's article, I interviewed Syria's militias at the Start of the War – They Will Listen if Other Countries Engage Them, published in The Conversation, examines the role of armed groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in post-Assa...
10 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Steve Chapman's article Tariffs Are Trump's Tool to Consolidate His Hold on Power, published in The UnPopulist, critiques Donald Trump's tariff policies as economically harmful and politically manipulative. Chapman argues that Trump uses tariff...
8 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
In a recent reflection on Sweden's 30-year EU membership, Andreas Johansson Heinö, one of Sweden's leading liberal opinion makers and a member of the market-liberal think tank Timbro, highlights the significance of the 1994 referendum. Heinö desc...
