Across Europe, democracy is under threat. Hungary, the poster child for democratic backsliding in the European Union, just took over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, a body made up of member countries’ Cabinet ministers. A new EU Parliament and executive branch, the European Commission, are taking shape after consequential elections that pulled the bloc notably closer toward the far right. EU candidate countries Georgia and Serbia are shifting unequivocally towards autocracy, with the Georgian government pushing through a string of anti-democratic legislation…