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I grew up in the trenches of the Bosnia-Herzegovina war and have seen first-hand what it means to live in an ethnocracy, a place where democratic values and behaviors are non-existent. When I moved to Sweden as an adult and started learning about European and global democracy, I was reminded how Bosnia was the example...
- 2022-01-11
You’d be forgiven if the words ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ mean nothing to you. Before joining the #StandForSomething campaign, I had only heard these words in passing, as part of a political speech or something. And yet, this exercise in participatory democracy could be a turning point for the EU project, an opportunity...
- 2021-11-28
“Fatemeh, I think it would be great if we could organize a podcast interview about innovation in democracy!” That is what Miguel de Fontenay, my former colleague from my previous corporate life, announced to me at the beginning of a strange year rung in with an on-going pandemic, vaccination contests, and American elections sprinkled with...
- 2021-05-10
Today, let’s talk about European parties. No, not the flag-waving, bring-a-dish-from-your-country, international celebrations of diversity. Not the cosmopolitan get-togethers, multi-cultural extravaganzas, and other piazza-filling, booze-imbued celebrations made possible by decades of continental peace: cornerstones of the Erasmus experience. No. European political parties. Ah! My representatives in the European Parliament! No, not quite. Not the “Political...
- 2021-04-28
Q&A Session with Filippo Addarii Fatemeh: Last year, Ursula von der Leyen said that the EGD was Europe’s “Man on the Moon” moment. Do you agree with that? Filippo: It’s a really brave public policy. And it’s transformative, because it implies societal transformation at all levels. It also has symbolic value – not only for...
- 2021-04-20
“‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?’” In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited...
- 2020-11-02
