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“We need to give democracy once more a human face”
🎙️ Iveta Radičová, Former Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic (2010-2012) and Club de Madrid Member
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The stage is set for the event of the year, #EPDAC2026! 💫
How healthy are our democracies and how can we design them to be more resilient?
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📌 Final panel on the European Democracy Shield:
"Civil society is the last line of defence when public institutions weaken. They’re not complementing democracy, but rather keeping it alive"
🎙️Tjaša Feher, EU Advocacy Manager, EUCrta
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📌 Session 6 on designing public-interest digital infrastructures:
''We think a European Google would be good, but EU companies do not always uphold EU values. We can’t borrow the business models of failed states.''
🎙️ Belén Luna Sanz, @whattofix.tech
#EPDAC2026
📌 Session 1 on EU enlargement:
‘’We chose Europe as a guarantee of our democratic futures. This is not only a slogan. We cement our countries as democracies, not as something that can be used in geopolitical games.’’
🎙️ Cristina Cerevate, State Secretary, Government of the Republic of Moldova
‘‘Democracy is not an abstract value, secondary to “hard” priorities such as security and defence, or economic stability. It is good to defend ourselves, but first we need to counter the weakness inside that makes our democracy vulnerable.’’
🎙️ EPD's Acting Executive Director, Thijs Berman
📌 Session 4 on Democracy in Crisis:
“Young people vote roughly the same as other generations, but they have the far right in their voting set (...) Older people vote for mainstream parties, younger people vote for new parties"
🎙️Cas Mudde, University of Georgia, United States
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🎙️ Gladys Mokhawa, on behalf of Former President of Botswana Masisi:
‘‘President Masisi lost the last elections and congratulated the newly elected president because democratic resilience depends on civil ownership and when citizens recognise themselves in it.’’
#EPDAC2026
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President of EPD, Anu Juvonen wraps up #EPDAC2026 with Camilla Banda and Pablo Callizo of the Club de Madrid Young Decision Makers Network.
Thank you all who joined and made this another successful and inspiring edition!
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