EUROPE

THE NETHERLANDS: ‘The direction of policy-making will depend on where the government seeks support’

ALBANIA: ‘Corruption is a serious problem, but no political force commands enough public trust to unite demands’

‘Freedom always returns – but only if we hold fast to our values and sustain the struggle’

‘People reacted to a system of governance shaped by informal powers and personal interests’

‘We haven’t inherited democracy, so we’ve had to reinvent it ourselves’

‘The Crime and Policing Bill is one of the most far-reaching attempts to curtail the right to protest’

‘Society does not accept indifference to the suffering of the Palestinian people’

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‘The results reflected a deeply divided electorate’

Troubling times ahead for Czech civil society

Billionaire right-wing populist wins election despite corruption allegations

‘We will keep blocking everything to break our government’s complicity with genocide’

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