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\n Despite discrepancies between west and east, Europe’s democratic health remains buoyant in the face of worldwide decline, according to a study released on Thursday by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EUI).
\n ADVERTISEMENTDespite divisions between east and west, Europe’s standards of functioning democracy remain high, even as global standards decline, according to a study released on Thursday by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).\u00a0The latest Democracy Index shows that after a year of elections worldwide, global democracy has weakened, with 2024 continuing a trend of “democratic malaise”, the report finds.\u00a0\u201cWhile autocracies seem to be gaining strength, as shown by the index trend since 2006, the world\u2019s democracies are struggling,\u201d Joan Hoey, director for the Democracy Index said in a release. \u00a0 \u00a0The annual study assesses five categories\u00a0– electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation, political culture – giving each country a score out of 10. \u00a0Based on this, countries are classified as full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, or authoritarian regimes. This year, Norway topped the rankings with 9.81, while Afghanistan ranked lowest at 0.25.\u00a0The sharpest declines were in government functioning and electoral process, with the average for the latter falling by 0.08 points compared to 2023, which the study considers \u201cwas especially disappointing given that so many countries went to the polls in 2024\u201d. \u00a0Europe presented a mixed picture. Eastern Europe saw a slight decline, while Western Europe improved by a marginal 0.01 points.\u00a0Nine of the world’s top ten democracies are in Europe, with New Zealand the only exception in second place.\u00a0Western Europe remains the highest-rated region and the only one to recover to pre-pandemic levels. However, the report highlights widespread public discontent, fuelling a shift towards anti-mainstream parties. \u00a0According to the study, \u201cthis dissatisfaction is fuelling a growing shift towards anti-mainstream parties, a trend widely illustrated by the many elections across the continent in 2024\u201d. It adds that these elections were marked by a clear rejection of incumbent leaders and a surge in support for anti-establishment and populist political forces.\u00a0There were notable shifts within the region: Portugal was upgraded to a “full democracy”, while France slipped into the “flawed” category.\u00a0Portugal\u00a0was first downgraded in 2011 and recovered the status of a \u201cfull democracy\u201d in 2019. However, the EUI after considering the limitations on personal freedom resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic downgraded it again in 2020.\u00a0France has also been close to the threshold score of 8.00 that separates \u201cfull\u201d from “flawed democracies”, falling to the second category in 2010-13, 2015-18 and 2020-21, during what the EUI classifies as “periods of political turbulence in which the administration has faced widespread social unrest and\/or internal divisions over policy, which undermined governance\u201d.\u00a0The report concludes that France\u2019s downgrade this year reflects a deterioration in the score for confidence in government. \u00a0Eastern Europe, grouped with Central Asia in the report, saw \u201cthe mildest regression of any region\u201d declining by 0.02\u00a0points, to 5.35.\u00a0ADVERTISEMENTThis region saw a milestone as the Czech Republic and Estonia\u00a0were upgraded from \u201cflawed democracies\u201d to \u201cfull democracies\u201d, gaining full democratic rating for the first time since 2013 when Czech Republic fell from the top category. By contrast, this year saw Romania downgraded from \u201cflawed democracy\u201d to \u201chybrid regime\u201d status, after the cancellation of the presidential election resulted in the country dropping 12 places in the ranking. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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