arnisatepelija.bsky.social @arnisatepelija.bsky.social · 14hThe bets are off on 29 November in Spain; Sanchez is gambling the current mandate for a bigger one, and he is all in! The streets demanded action. His government tried and failed. Spain's housing crisis, a building collapsing under its own weight of rent. The only question left: how does one do it? 200
arnisatepelija.bsky.social @arnisatepelija.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Vučić's resignation is a chronicle of a resignation foretold: a long-awaited move answering the pulsing rage of the protests that followed the deaths of 16 people in the collapse of the Novi Sad railway station roof in November 2024. It leaves a rule of law wreck track behind too. 495
arnisatepelija.bsky.social @arnisatepelija.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sept 2: Albania's Treasury froze pay for the entire judiciary: judges, prosecutors, clerks, guards (2,000+ people). No explanation. This came after the Constitutional Court (Feb 17) struck down the law tying judges' pay to the President's. The Parliament had until 31 July to fix it; it let it lapse. 474
arnisatepelija.bsky.social @arnisatepelija.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Have the post-1990 European standards on judicial councils reached their limits? Judicial self-governance, largely shaped by Western European constitutional experience and later promoted across Central and Eastern Europe as a rule-of-law benchmark, is beginning to face new questions from within. 631
arnisatepelija.bsky.social @arnisatepelija.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Ten years ago, I walked the halls of the German Bundestag as an IPS scholar from Albania. Returning in Berlin now to work on rule of law and democracy @democracyreporting.bsky.social reminds me that democratic enablers are more useful than ever. My interview here: www.mitmischen.de/misch-mit/ip... 020
Reposted by arnisatepelija.bsky.socialDemocracy Reporting International @democracyreporting.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Hungary votes this Sunday. Three parties, each with a starkly different vision for the country's future. Edit Zgut-Przybylska helped us analyse party programmes, compare positions across five key areas, and outline possible scenarios after the election. 👇 1157