Background and objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on our democratic societies, posing unprecedented challenges to personal freedoms, the reliability of information and, ultimately, the ability of democratic institutions to cope with the rapidly changing societal demands. This adds up to a tumultuous decade for European democracy, that saw the rise of populist movements and...
The report presents the key findings of the European Democracy Lab organized online on the 19th of November 2021, under the umbrella of the PaCE project. The goal of the European Democracy Lab was to address and respond to the key findings of local democracy labs that emerged from the deliberation of participants in seven European countries on “Trust in authorities in the time of Covid-19...
The document introduces the case studies on social movements, as a part of the PaCE report D1.1. Historical and political development of populism in Europe. The PDF version of the document is available HERE.
The document introduces the case studies on political parties, as a part of the PaCE report D1.1. Historical and political development of populism in Europe. The PDF version of the document is available HERE.
The CEU Democracy Institute hosts the eight conference of the BRIDGE network event series “The Rule of Law Crisis and the Future of EU Governance” in collaboration with the DCU Brexit Institute, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Boen and Bolzano. The conference is organized online on the 27th and 28th of January 2022. Dr. Ruzha Smilova, from the Centre of Liberal...
The report presenting the key findings from Local Democracy Labs carried out in seven European countries: Italy, Iceland, Spain, Scotland, Hungary, Poland, and Bulgaria has been released as a collaborative effort of the City of Reykjavík, Iceland – Dr. Roxana Elena Cziker, and the Democratic Society based in Brussels – Sophie Kiesouw and Alecsandra Ziętek. The common topics revealed...
The PaCE event, conference, and workshop on policy strategy has been organized by the City of Reykjavík, in collaboration with the University of Iceland and the LIbrary Gerðubergi on the 26th and 27th of October 2021. The event was built on the main findings of the PaCE Local Democracy Lab in Iceland and aimed to create and apply evidence-based methods on policy innovation based on academic...
A conference summarizing research findings on populism in Europe, carried out within the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The PaCE event aims to present findings from our research carried out by the PaCE consortium partner institutions and, together with participants and stakeholders, develop the approaches to connect research with policy-making. Thematic tracks Understanding...
The Bulgarian version of the report presenting the main findings of the PaCE Local Democracy Lab in Bulgaria is now available, enabling Bulgarian-speaking people to read it over. Many thanks to our colleagues from the Sofia Platform Foundation, Bulgaria, for making possible the translation of the report. The report is available HERE.
Following the expansion of the EU over the last seventy years, this infographic depicts the evolution, and relative decline, of Europe’s post-war liberal democratic rule. Back in the 1950s, and for three decades thereafter, all member states had solid liberal democratic governments. The Union was in fact meant to be an exclusive club of liberal democracies. But things did not turn exactly that...