00:00No, el E.U. no es ERODING EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY
00:03Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again made dubious claims
00:11about the E.U., its popularity and the quality of its democracy.
00:15In a post on X, the multi-billionaire said that Ireland and all other E.U. members
00:20should leave the bloc, claiming that it's destroying democracy in Europe.
00:23He made the comments in response to another post
00:26criticising a recent ruling by the European Court of Justice,
00:30which rejected a claim by the Irish government
00:32that it was unable to properly cover asylum seekers' basic needs
00:36due to an inundation of applicants.
00:38Claims about the E.U.'s supposed lack of democracy are often levied
00:42when the ECJ hands down a ruling that a particular political faction or figure doesn't like,
00:47but research shows that E.U. countries, and European nations in general,
00:51are some of the most democratic in the world.
00:54The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index, published this year,
00:57says that there are 25 countries in the world that are full democracies,
01:0213 of which are in the EU.
01:04Some of the highest ranking include Sweden, Finland, Denmark and, yes, Ireland.
01:08The number is even higher when you take into account non-E.U. European countries,
01:13such as Norway, which is right at the top, Iceland, Switzerland and the UK.
01:18Many other EU countries are labelled floor democracies by the E.U.,
01:22but this is still the second highest rank in the index.
01:25France, Malta, Slovenia and Latvia are some of the member states making up the numbers here.
01:30The E.U. notes, however, that democracy in some EU nations has deteriorated,
01:35such as Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania,
01:37the last of which is ranked as a hybrid regime.
01:40While there's still a clear democratic divide between Eastern and Western EU countries,
01:45the gap is closing slowly.
01:48The Czech Republic and Estonia made it into the full democracies list this year,
01:52after a decade of no Eastern European country making the cut.
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