The familiar cliché about Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, is that she changed the way Britons thought about themselves and the way the world thought about Britain.

Her death today attracted somber tributes …

The European Union’s crisis is as much a crisis of democracy as economics, analysts suggest, while a major new initiative calls for civil solidarity with Greece.

“What is at stake is not just membership of a monetary union; it is …

Independent radio station Klubradio “has found itself at the center of what its director, Andras Arato, calls a government-backed war to weaken and silence the station,” writes Dan Bilefsky in the New York Times:

The clash has become emblematic …

“The European Endowment for Democracy is a new Brussels-based foundation that will start to operate this summer under the leadership of a Polish diplomat, Jerzy Pomianowski (right),” The Associated Press reports. 

“There is a gap to be filled, …

Are Eastern Europe’s supposedly consolidated democracies beginning to unravel?

“The toppling of Bulgaria’s government after protests last month was dismissed by some observers as another backlash against ‘austerity’,” notes one observer:

But taken together with the similar fall of …

The National Endowment for Democracy and the Embassy of Lithuania invite you to the presentation of the Democracy Service Medal to Vytautas Landsbergis, preceded by a screening of the film The Other Dream Team. 

Vytautas Landsbergis, along …

The first foreign trip of a newly appointed U.S. secretary of state carries a particular message, foreign policy analyst Ulrich Speck writes for Carnegie Europe. John Kerry’s visit to Europe suggests that we may be witnessing the birth …

A European initiative to fund pro-democracy groups was introduced to Polish activists this week by its new director, Poland’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jerzy Pomianowski (left), UPI reports:

Pomianowski, appointed by the European Union last month to lead the …

Cuba’s Communist authorities denied Yoani Sánchez (right) the right to travel twenty times, but she has now arrived in the Czech Republic, Radio Praha’s Jan Richter reports:

Sánchez, who said she only knew Prague from the books of Milan Kundera, …

Natasa Kandic (left) and the Humanitarian Law Center draw praise from The Economist’s Tim Judah, who notes that the weekend’s fifth anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence also provides a prelude to the resumption of European Union (EU) sponsored …