Martin Wolf and Anne Applebaum on democracy’s year of peril
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place in more than 50 countries, making this a pivotal year for democracy. But these polls come as populist, illiberal and far-right parties are either growing in support or consolidating gains they have already made. In the second of this five-part series, the FT’s renowned economics commentator, Martin Wolf, speaks to the author and journalist Anne Applebaum, who’s witnessed first hand some of the seismic shifts that have taken place in America and Europe. They talk about how the newly elected Polish government is trying to veer the country away from the illiberal path taken by the previous administration, and spell out what’s at stake for the world if Donald Trump wins a second term as US president. Clip: The Guardian
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Martin Wolf column: Fascism has changed, but it is not dead
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.5 | It's Mark Filipino here. |
| 0:12.8 | Regular listeners will know that for every Sunday this month, |
| 0:16.4 | the news briefing is going to do something a little bit different. |
| 0:18.9 | We're running a series about the outlook for democracy, |
| 0:22.0 | hosted by the FT's chief hosted by the F.T.'s chief economics |
| 0:24.0 | commentator Martin Wolf. He's been talking to leading political thinkers about |
| 0:28.0 | what this year, a pivotal year for democracy, has in store for the liberal democratic system. |
| 0:34.0 | So here goes, Martin Wolf, democracy's year of peril. I'm in effect a citizen of three countries. I'm American, but I live part of the time in |
| 0:47.6 | Poland, my husband's Polish, I have a Polish password, and I also spent many years in Great |
| 0:51.8 | Britain. |
| 0:53.1 | And there was a kind of spark that went off in my head |
| 0:57.2 | or somewhere in the year 2015. |
| 1:00.0 | When I suddenly realized that the political system in all three countries, all of my countries, |
| 1:07.0 | was being challenged. |
| 1:09.0 | Being a citizen of three countries has allowed the author and journalist Anne Applebaum |
| 1:17.6 | to bear witness to some of the seismic shifts that have taken place in America and Europe. |
| 1:24.0 | In my case, I realized in some cases it was being challenged by people I knew. |
| 1:28.0 | Not necessarily my best friends, but people I'd met or people I'd come across or people who'd been part of the mainstream |
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