Political culture

National Gallery’s ‘Democracy’ looks at Southern European history and art

A new and timely exhibition titled "Democracy" that opens at the National Gallery of Art on Thursday explores the relationship of art with political history in southern Europe.

The exhibition will open to the public on Friday (July 12) and run to February 2, 2025.

A still-fresh mandate

It's been just 10 months since the last national election and the government won by a landslide. So, it is ludicrous from both a political and democratic standpoint that its legitimacy should come into question in any way, shape or form.

AI and its potential impact on liberal democracy

Since 1992, Francis Fukuyama has often been called upon to explain how his prediction of the definitive dominance of the liberal democracy model after the fall of communism has been tested by events - by the internal convulsions in Western democracies and by the apparent success of authoritarian regimes such as China. But his theory has never lost its appeal.

Two arrested for vandalizing minister’s office

Two men were arrested for vandalizing the Athens office of Alternate Foreign Affairs Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis on Friday.

The suspects were among a group of self-styled anarchists who spray-painted slogans on the walls and scattered fliers in what appeared to be a protest at the government's migration policy.

US Push for Decentralisation May not Solve Bosnia’s Problems

In his current statements to the regional media, Serwer has presented some possible measures supposedly intended to reform the Dayton arrangement. His argumentation is based primarily on a call for more centralisation that would limit the powers of Bosnia's ethnically defined entities and cantons.

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