End of November, Defend Democracy joined the Riga conference ‘Roads to Resilience’, which brought together civilian and military partners to strengthen cooperation on resilience, crisis response, and hybrid-threat preparedness.

Defend Democracy contributed with a presentation on hybrid warfare.

On 4 December, Defend Democracy held the fourth conference of its flagship program Coalition for Democratic Resilience (C4DR), bringing together governments and civil society from current and future EU and NATO countries to build preparedness and resilience to hybrid and technological threats to democracy.

Co-hosted by the Danish EU Presidency representatives from the European institutions, from EU and NATO member states and civil society organisations joined From Regulation to Resilience: the Role of Digital Rules in Defending Democracy and Security to connect the dots between tech regulation, democracy and security. They also discussed the urgent need for more tech sovereignty and increased investment in building societal preparedness and resilience to hybrid warfare.

Highlights and pictures in this thread and on LinkedIn.

On 10 December, Defend Democracy brought together our community of democracy defenders for informal exchange with Member of EU Parliament Kim van Sparrentak (NL), about the European Democracy Shield, Digital Fairness Act, and Digital Omnibus.

27 January: #DemocracyDrinks with EEAS Head of Hybrid Threats and Cyber

17 February: next #DemocracyDrinks