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I’ve been covering the annual democracy index produced by EIU, our sister organisation, since I moved across from EIU to the newspaper in 2015. That year, it turns out, was “peak democracy” for the 167 countries in the index. It has been pretty much downhill ever since, with coups, covid and contested elections dragging down the global average.
Over the past year things may have turned a corner—thanks, in part, to Donald Trump. Denmark’s score increased after its government deftly handled his threats to take over Greenland.
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