Is Western democracy in crisis?

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks0Even now that Donald Trump has appointed his team and given interviews on his plans it remains unclear in which direction he will lead the US. Some commentators see Trump's election victory in the US Election in November 2016 as a sign of the decline of Western liberal ideas of democracy. Others see it as a deserved slap in the face for the liberal left-wing establishment.

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ESO: Background information: World becomes unpredictable as ‘populist’ Trump wins US election http://www.europeansources.info/record/world-becomes-unpredictable-as-populist-trump-wins-us-election/

Blog: LSE EuroppBlog, 15.11.16: How to prevent the collapse of the liberal-left after Brexit and Trump http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/11/15/prevent-collapse-liberal-left-after-brexit-and-trump/

EUObserver, 21.11.16: [Opinion]: Right-wing extremism fuelled by a sick society (by Goran Buldioski, Open Society Foundation) https://euobserver.com/opinion/135967

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