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Democracy is under siege — not just in Hungary, but across the world.Budapest is where the cracks show first, and where people fight back.Every other week, Ivan Scalfarotto sits down with activists, dissidents, scholars, and political leaders to understand why democracies…
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Ep. 14 - Elections Remained but Democracy Died, with Armando Armas (opens the original)
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Venezuela is a country where the crisis of democracy has been unfolding for years, and where the collapse of institutions has left citizens facing not only political repression and economic hardship, but also the consequences of a fragile state unable to fully protect them. After years of Nicolás Maduro's rule, Venezuela remains at a crossroads. A country that once had some of Latin America's strongest democratic institutions watched them be dismantled from within. My guest is Armando Armas, a V
Ep. 13 - There is No Real Alternative for Germany, with Hans-Jochen Wagner (opens the original)
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There is No Real Alternative for Germany, with Hans-Jochen Wagner This time, Budapest steps onto a stage. Not because politics belongs to theatre (well, sometimes...), but because artists often understand politics better than politics understands itself. That is why I invited Hans-Jochen Wagner. One of Germany's best-known television and theatre actors, he has spent his career telling stories about his country, most recently in Deutsches Haus, the acclaimed series inspired by the first Frankfurt
Ep. 12 - Like Frogs in Boiling Water, with Dragana Djurica (opens the original)
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We are now moving from Budapest to Serbia, where I am joined by Dragana Djurica — Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia, who also sits on the board of the European Movement International. Before that, she spent almost ten years as a senior expert at the Regional Cooperation Council. We begin with a question that concerns far more than the Western Balkans: has Serbia been lost on Europe's doorstep? For Djurica, the frontier between democracy and autocracy does not follow a map. It
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