Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says
Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says
Civil liberties report warns that Italy along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia intentionally undermining rule of law ‘in nearly all aspects’
Italy’s government has profoundly undermined the rule of law with changes to the judiciary and showed “heavy intolerance to media criticism”, in an emblematic example of Europe’s deepening “democratic recession”, a coalition of civil liberties groups has said.
A report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) said Italy was one of five “dismantlers” – along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia – that “intentionally undermine the rule of law in nearly all aspects”.
In Hungary, long classified as an “electoral autocracy”, researchers detected “significant regression” in the rule of law in 2024. Pressure on non-governmental groups and media intensified after the launch of Hungary’s sovereignty protection office, which has broad powers to investigate Hungarians active in public life.
Right now Meloni is suing Daniele Fabbri, a stand-up comedian, for a satirical video he published in 2021.
The comedian was commenting on some sexist insults the politician received, saying that it's possible to criticise a public figure without being misoginistic. Being a comedian he did that by listing some overly childish insults along the lines of "stinky" and such.
It is very troubling when a prime minister aims to silence dissident voices exercising the protected right to satire, and I find it particularly egregious given said person was basically defending her as a woman even while criticising her as a politician and public figure.
It's important to identify these problems, identify the source, and form often complex long term resolutions with minimizing harm as a priority.
If things continue to escelate, you need to bring Italy in closer, not push them away.
The Italian government's undemocratic decisions have effect only in Italy, fortunately, and nobody in Europe has ever cared about what happens to Italian citizens (since they are not even consider properly civilized people). So the rest of EU is safe, this is just a click bait title.
...who doesn't consider Italians properly civilized people?
Wow it’s a good thing Italy never came up with a wildly authoritarian, jingoistic, and militaristic form of government. To me, it sounds like that sort of thing might have been one of the core factors that started an intercontinental military conflict - a “world war”, if you will.
May I ask which time period are you speaking about ? Is it current ongoing , or some 20 30 back or a around 100 years back ?
It’s not like they’ll start a world war if they are isolated🤣🤣🤣
Because when have internal italian politics ever had repercussions for the rest of Europe...