Vasja Badalič

Vasja Badalič is a researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the founder of the SOS4Democracy project, initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic to study and strengthen the understanding of illiberal systems. His work focuses on the centralization of power in executive branches, attacks on judiciary systems, and the suppression of protests. Badalič expresses concerns about the influence of radical political changes in the United States on European democracies.