#Democracy

Council of Europe: “Can democracy save the environment?”, the World Forum physically back in Strasbourg

EU Parliament: Sakharov Prize to Russian opposition leader Navalny. Sassoli, “he campaigned against the corruption of Vladimir Putin’s regime”

European renaissance: despite some good results, the EU is challenged by numerous difficulties

Goals and critical junctures ahead for the European Union until the summer of 2022. The fight against COVID-19, the vaccination…

Conference on the future of Europe: “bottom-up” democracy. Events across EU countries

The fourth European Citizens’ Panel involved in the EU reflection and review process will be held in Strasbourg on October…

EU Parliament, institutional makeover. “‘COVID-19 has opened our eyes”

A number of reforms are being drafted at the EU Parliament seats in Strasbourg and Brussels, with a view to…

EYE2021: politics, culture, celebration. Young people’s ideas for the future of Europe

The European Youth Event kicked off online on October 4, leading up to the main event of October 8-9, when…

Council of Europe: Havel Prize to Belarusian opposition leader Maria Kalesnikava

Elections in Russia. Kanevsky (University of Moscow): “Doubts on the democratic legitimacy of the vote, but it’s hard to prove”

As has been happening for many years now, Vladimir Putin’s United Russia retains a supermajority in Russian elections, dominating the…

Conference on the Future of Europe: 6 thousand ideas on Europe so far

Citizens’ panels have started their work. A group of 800 citizens are expected to put forward their ideas on reforming…

Afghanistan: The EU Council does not give legitimacy to the Taleban government. “We’ll assess it in terms of rights and freedoms”, especially those of women and girls

Russian elections, Putin’s party set to win. Trophimov (sociologist): “No real political debate”

According to the Moscow Lomonosov University scholar, interviewed by SIR, Russian voters don’t feel particularly involved in the upcoming 17-19…