Has Europe’s crackdown on free speech become a bigger threat to democracy than ‘the extremists’ it seeks to contain?

Danish lawyer, executive director of the Future of Free Speech Project at Vanderbilt University, and senior fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. He is the author of Free ...

Former President of the EU Parliament Martin Schulz on defending democracy, the importance of honest communication and ...

Former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin on the fragile ceasefire and how Israel’s 2026 elections could shift the ...

Electoral dysfunction across the continent tells the same story: citizens are convinced that democratic procedures serve ...

In the United States, along with Trump’s authoritarianism, Amazon has escalated its anti-democratic tactics, attempting to ...

The answers to both challenges lie in boosting innovation and increasing the commercialisation of new technologies, products and processes into new startups and fast-growing companies that spur local ...

Professor of Public Policy, Government and Business and Policy Director of the Productivity Institute at the University of Manchester. He is a board member at Skills England and a governor at the ...

Calls to disarm Hezbollah are mounting — but lasting peace is impossible without a Lebanese state that can reclaim real ...

Nigerian not-for-profit organisation that promotes understanding and commitment of citizens and groups to the ideals, values and principles of democracy. He is also an FES Nigeria ‘Open Minds Young ...

Verena El Amil is a lawyer at the Beirut Bar Association and a lecturer at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. She also works for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Lebanon. In addition, she is actively ...

Visiting Fellow at the Academy of International Affairs – NRW, and a Senior Fellow with the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College (EI), leading EI’s work promoting ideas and network-building to ...