Switzerland's democracy risks losing touch with the future. You may ask yourself, what. Switzerland, one of the oldest and most wellestablished democracies in the world.Yes. If we don't keep taking care of it, if we don't keep recognizing how important it is for young people to participate and to be heard. So why do I care about youth participation.When I was 12 years old, I met a member of the youth parliament of Zurich who encouraged me to join. At my very first session, I was part of the working group on ...

Thank you and welcome everyone. Now for the next five minutes I would like to talk to you about something that is happening on the quieter sidelines away from all the noise of politics that we are permanently hearing. The constant hum of Trump, inflation, taxes and so on.Because while it may be a quiet development, I believe that is one of the most important changes for us across the United Kingdom and that is the extension of the vote to 16 and 17 year olds that is about to become law. Now this is a profou ...

How did Theresa May decide to put her name forward for UK prime minister?She tells @flacqua that although she voted to remain in the European Union, she believes in democracy and felt responsible for delivering Brexit in a way that could bring both sides together.Watch Leaders https://t.co/5HkMpM4DzF ...

60 Minutes reported from Hong Kong in 2019, when months of pro-democracy demonstrations turned increasingly violent. Jimmy Lai, a media company owner and democracy advocate, spoke with Holly Williams at the time about criticizing the Chinese government. Lai, now 78, was arrested in 2020, and convicted on Monday in a landmark national security trial of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. "60 Minutes" is the most suc ...

I want to to speak to the Norwegian people, to European people, to the Venezuelan people. I would say to all citizens of the world in this hour to you that I am very hopeful Venezuela will be free and we will turn a country into a beacon of hope and opportunity of democracy. And we'll we will welcome not only the Venezuelans that have been forced to flee, but citizens from all over the world that will find a refuge, as Venezuela used to be decades ago. ...

This year was a deeply disappointing one for Africa’s struggling democrats. And there is little reason to expect 2026 to be much better https://t.co/fNZWWwfXPH ...

RT Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇪🇺 EUROPE’S WAR ON X IS A WAR ON DEMOCRACYThe EU claims its €120 million fine levied on X is about “transparency violations.” Don’t be fooled. This isn’t about checkmarks or ads. It’s about crushing political dissent - online, surgically, and with plausible deniability.What’s really happening is simple: Europe’s ruling class is terrified of its own voters. Right-wing parties now lead in France, are rising fast in Germany, and could dominate the next UK election. So Brussels is ...

The inauguration in January 2025 of John Mahama, Ghana’s president, should in theory have been a showcase of democracy’s enduring health in Africa. Yet troubling signs were visible. Read more in The World Ahead https://t.co/Z1V8pa0V76 ...

DAOs are retarded because they misunderstand democracythe point of democracy and boards of directors is not to lead or make decisions, it is to keep the leader accountablethey are a fallback in case of failurebut DAOs make them the norm in case of successretardio ...

Where previous presidents’ policies vowed to make the world safe for democracy, Donald Trump’s version seems more inclined to make it safe for illiberalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Europe https://t.co/Z7O01JMoT2Photo: Daniel Torok/White House/ZUMA Press Wire/eyevine ...