Translation of "Demokratieabbau" in English

But how should the EU react to the dismantling of democracy within its ranks?

This is why the danger of authoritarianism, repression, and the dismantling of democracy is so great today.

It's a protests against the lack of democracy and it is an act of solidarity.

There are continuous reports about the decline in democracy in that country.

All these are victories by terrorism, insofar as we are cutting back on democracy.

Triggered by a new labour law, the protests are also aimed at corruption and the dismantling of democracy.

I would like to emphasise once again to the Member States: "Administrative arrangements are not to be equated with dismantling democracy' .

This is Big Brother writ large and provides even more evidence of the disastrous decline of democracy in Europe generated by this increasingly totalitarian European Union.

We know that China is involved in the democracy backlash around the world: working with Russia as a dirty duet, all over Africa, with Belarus, Venezuela, Zimbabwe and Egypt.

It is available only online. The shock of what we can only call the defeat of the European Union's first left-wing government and, beyond this, of all the social and political forces in Europe that oppose neoliberalism, austerity, and the dismantling of democracy is a severe one.

For this reason, Europe has been for years in a situation that would normally be considered favorable to the political left – capitalism experiencing a crisis whose costs are clearly dumped on the shoulders of working people through the cuts in social services and the dismantling of democracy, while the financial and the real economy continue to make good profits, the gap between rich and poor continues to open and neither the conservative nor the liberal, neither the social democrat nor the green parties are able to offer and implement solutions.

This complicates and delays the dismantling of democracy and the erosion of the rule of law.

There are many opportunities to accomplish that, for instance the annual debate on the national budgets under the supervision of the EU, the austerity policies, the dismantling of democracy and the issues regarding European foreign policy.

But in the European and Portuguese press the advancing dismantlement of democracy in Romania and Slovakia are barely mentioned.

Dismantling of social and political-democratic achievements, growing social and political repression, a rise of political, ideological and religious fundamentalism and the rising tide of violence against “foreigners” have become realities.

In other words, the self-positioning of a young party such as AN.EL as an anti-memoranda party, results in certain positions being adopted on privatisation and the dismantlement of workers' rights but also on "side effects" such as dismantling democracy, the state and police violence becoming more and more authoritarian. These positions shape the party's political profile and the relationship with its voters in a way that cannot be taken back without political losses.

Struggles are taking place everywhere, be it against the capitalists' attacks on job and wage conditions, against social cutbacks and dismantling of democratic rights, against the oppression of women, against the development of a police and surveillance state, against reaction, war and fascism, against national oppression and for the right of self-determination of the peoples, against environmental destruction and endangering the natural foundations of life, for better living conditions, for peace, freedom and progress.

In other words, the self-positioning of a young party such as AN.EL as an anti-memoranda party, results in certain positions being adopted on privatisation and the dismantlement of workers’ rights but also on “side effects” such as dismantling democracy, the state and police violence becoming more and more authoritarian. These positions shape the party’s political profile and the relationship with its voters in a way that cannot be taken back without political losses.

It is critical that the EU stands up against this democratic backsliding, or else risk it becoming normalised.

Of course, while Hungary has been the continent's pioneer in all sorts of things (like offensive-minded football in the 1950s and undermining democracy today), it is hardly the only country where smear campaigns are used to gain political capital.

But the EU's outrage at the dismantling of democracy in its midst is limited.

And at the same time, the left is losing support in a context of crisis, austerity, the dismantlement of democracy, and the delegitimation of politics.