The political right in the EU has had a bad week.
Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned amid a criminal investigation into possible abuse of public funds to publish favourable opinion polls in a newspaper.
Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš lost parliamentary elections.
And in Germany, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is losing hope to form a government after its poor showing in federal elections.
This looks like good news for democracy.
Given all th...
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Michael Meyer-Resende is the executive director of Democracy Reporting International (DRI), a non-partisan NGO in Berlin that supports political participation.