While timely and necessary, the measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 have had an enormous impact not only on our daily lives, but also on our democracies. In this series, we try to asses how democratic practice has been affected and how we can make our future democracies more resilient.

We spoke to Tamara Ehs, expert in democracy and political education, on the situation in Austria and the need to be vigilant to protect our basic democratic freedoms:

 

You can see an overview of the measures introduced in Austria here.