Come on Greece! I mean you are the cradle of democracy what are you doing down there?
RemindMe! Five years
Moldova just below 7 points
Top 20 all germanic countries except for Finland and somewhat Luxembourg.
Lmao Bulgaria is better than Romania and Hungry???
Haha, suck it Sweden
In my experience Azerbaijan is worse than Belarus but they are favored in some way. Or maybe cause they are not near Europe so people don’t know what’s going on there.
Serbia 6.36?!? Maybe if this was Eurosong and Malta gave us 5 points on top of our 1.36..
Hopefully we’ll improve in the next 4 years, before a new populist gets elected
I think the trick is to have a cross in the flag
C’mon, we could do better, people!
How is Romania worse than Hungary and almost the same as Serbia?
Wonder where the US lands
We’ll get you next time, Finland
Spain slipped from full democracy. The main reason is the inability to renew the council that oversees the judiciary. It requires a supermajority of 3/5, so it has not happened since 2018
The opposition has no incentive to let the government renew it as they consider the current members (which are operating in caretaker form) to be more aligned with their ideas
Oh yeah, the ranking where we are considered a ‘flawed democracy’ because we have compulsory voting (well not really because it’s actually only mandatory to show up, not to vote), meaning they give us a terrible score in ‘political participation’ while we probably have the biggest voters turnout of Europe for each and every single election. Ridiculous to say the least.
Oh yeah, the ranking where we are considered a ‘flawed democracy’ because we have compulsory voting (well not really because it’s actually only mandatory to show up, not to vote), meaning they give us a terrible score in ‘political participation’ while we probably have the biggest voters turnout of Europe for each and every single election. Ridiculous to say the least.
Im so fed up with the Nordics always beeing on top of these kind of indexes. Democracy, press feedom, happiness and yada yada. Its frikkin boring having to live in these so called well-functioning democratic societies. Its time for the Nordics to go Viking on the world again. That was fun…
Netherlands outside the top 10. Well this is new…
Classic Belgium being snubbed from being “full democracy” because we have “opkomstplicht”.
We require everyone that is eligble to vote, to show up at their respective voting registry. They can vote blank or choose not to vote at all, as long as they show up.
The economist doesn’t like that so they give us a 5/10 in political participation.
They also don’t like that most people who aren’t politicians don’t want to be a member of a political party, so they give us a a bit bellow 7 for political culture.
Bulgaria better than Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Turkey and Russia?
Mmmm I feel so patriotic rn that I might Invade Macedonia
Belgium is that low on the board? Fuck it, im moving to Sweden.
All the cold countries seem to be quite high
Still fuming at how Canada and UK, with an unelected Upper House and a First Past the Post System, is considered a full democracy but somehow France (with two round voting and 2 fully elected houses) is not.
How is Belarus that low? *pretends to be shocked/surprised*
Boy I sure do love living in almost peak democracy. The power truly belongs to the people and all the important shit being voted for by, once again, the people is truly liberating.
Man I sure do love democracy.
How the fuck is Croatia so low? Oh, it was ruled by our own court that the leading party in our country is an organized crime organization and they still rule the country and can still run on elections.
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hiiele!
It’s the ranking published every year from “The Economist”
Source: https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2021/
The bottom countries are tragic.
Top 100??
FUCK YEA
Nordics
Come on Greece! I mean you are the cradle of democracy what are you doing down there?
RemindMe! Five years
Moldova just below 7 points
Top 20 all germanic countries except for Finland and somewhat Luxembourg.
Lmao Bulgaria is better than Romania and Hungry???
Haha, suck it Sweden
In my experience Azerbaijan is worse than Belarus but they are favored in some way. Or maybe cause they are not near Europe so people don’t know what’s going on there.
Serbia 6.36?!? Maybe if this was Eurosong and Malta gave us 5 points on top of our 1.36..
Hopefully we’ll improve in the next 4 years, before a new populist gets elected
I think the trick is to have a cross in the flag
C’mon, we could do better, people!
How is Romania worse than Hungary and almost the same as Serbia?
Wonder where the US lands
We’ll get you next time, Finland
Spain slipped from full democracy. The main reason is the inability to renew the council that oversees the judiciary. It requires a supermajority of 3/5, so it has not happened since 2018
The opposition has no incentive to let the government renew it as they consider the current members (which are operating in caretaker form) to be more aligned with their ideas
Oh yeah, the ranking where we are considered a ‘flawed democracy’ because we have compulsory voting (well not really because it’s actually only mandatory to show up, not to vote), meaning they give us a terrible score in ‘political participation’ while we probably have the biggest voters turnout of Europe for each and every single election. Ridiculous to say the least.
Oh yeah, the ranking where we are considered a ‘flawed democracy’ because we have compulsory voting (well not really because it’s actually only mandatory to show up, not to vote), meaning they give us a terrible score in ‘political participation’ while we probably have the biggest voters turnout of Europe for each and every single election. Ridiculous to say the least.
Im so fed up with the Nordics always beeing on top of these kind of indexes. Democracy, press feedom, happiness and yada yada. Its frikkin boring having to live in these so called well-functioning democratic societies. Its time for the Nordics to go Viking on the world again. That was fun…
Netherlands outside the top 10. Well this is new…
Classic Belgium being snubbed from being “full democracy” because we have “opkomstplicht”.
We require everyone that is eligble to vote, to show up at their respective voting registry. They can vote blank or choose not to vote at all, as long as they show up.
The economist doesn’t like that so they give us a 5/10 in political participation.
They also don’t like that most people who aren’t politicians don’t want to be a member of a political party, so they give us a a bit bellow 7 for political culture.
It’s a really biased metric if you ask me.
Ha, get rekt Danes!
Balkan corruption go brrrrrrr
For everyone who wants the pdf of the source : https://pages.eiu.com/rs/753-RIQ-438/images/eiu-democracy-index-2021.pdf?mkt_tok=NzUzLVJJUS00MzgAAAGCg1XKiawhS0uXDec6NYVPkk1OYadigp9KmTnVTdgobIggke-KsBcgYKx3F_Wt5iGdpCZcVkoQk0QPFD5PHq_EpzEWxpqjueXV5OC1fw7PdCx9Hg
Bulgaria better than Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Turkey and Russia?
Mmmm I feel so patriotic rn that I might Invade Macedonia
Belgium is that low on the board? Fuck it, im moving to Sweden.
All the cold countries seem to be quite high
Still fuming at how Canada and UK, with an unelected Upper House and a First Past the Post System, is considered a full democracy but somehow France (with two round voting and 2 fully elected houses) is not.
How is Belarus that low? *pretends to be shocked/surprised*
Boy I sure do love living in almost peak democracy. The power truly belongs to the people and all the important shit being voted for by, once again, the people is truly liberating.
Man I sure do love democracy.
How the fuck is Croatia so low? Oh, it was ruled by our own court that the leading party in our country is an organized crime organization and they still rule the country and can still run on elections.
We’ll get you next time, Romania