Preparing and Shielding European Democracy. How to increase the EU’s Preparedness against Hybrid Threats?
A new era calls for a new coalition. Democracies need to talk to each other and figure out a more joint approach to foreign interference by ‘sharp power’: authoritarian regimes seeking to undermine our democracies from within by the weaponisation of everything.
Defend Democracy has therefore launched the Coalition for Democratic Resilience (C4DR), bringing together governments and civil society from current and future EU and NATO countries, who are all facing challenges of sharp power – also known as ‘hybrid threats’.
C4DR’s second conference Preparing and Shielding European Democracy is taking place in collaboration with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Brussels on Wednesday 4 December.
Background reading: Defend Democracy’s article about connecting the dots between the EU Commission’s European Democracy Shield and the European Preparedness Union.
Confirmed speakers (to be updated regularly):
- Maria Golub, Advisor, Verkhovna Rada (National Parliament of Ukraine)
- Greta Kiss, Regional Project Manager, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
- Hannah Neumann, MEP Greens/EFA, member AFET and SEDE (tbc)
- Sophie Pornschlegel, Deputy Director, Europe Jacques Delors
- Alice Stollmeyer, Founder & Executive Director, Defend Democracy
- Jacob Tamm, Deputy Head of Division, European External Action Service
- Jana Zikmundova, Chair Defend Democracy; Ambassador (ret.) to Ukraine
Draft program:
Preparing and Shielding European Democracy. How to increase the EU’s Preparedness against Hybrid Threats?
- Welcome & introduction
- Opening key note
- Panel 1: How to shield European democracy? Broadening the European Democracy Shield beyond disinformation (FIMI)
- Key note
- Panel 2: How to build the EU’s preparedness? President Niinistö’s Preparedness Report and the European Preparedness Union
- Closing remarks
- Networking
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