Understanding your fears and expectations

Much has been made of the importance of multilateral institutions, such as NATO and the UN, and there’s been a lot of talk about European security. The current crisis reveals that existing policy measures – despite the best intentions – have not served to deter authoritarian regimes to invert democracy and hold Europe and the world to ransom.

It is amongst people and communities that the shock of geopolitics and the actions of a dictator are felt most.

This session will be the occasion for European Young Leaders to meet young Croatians and exchange with them.

• What are your reflections on what governments and institutions should do to protect you? Where are they falling short?
• What are your fears?
• In the Ukraine crisis do you understand why what seems like inaction from the West is taking place?
• How have climate measures addressed your concerns and living conditions?
• And most importantly, what can be done to make feel you safer locally?

Young Leaders in attendance will include Benedetta Berti, Head of Policy Planning at the NATO Secretary General Office; Alexandra Dariescu, Award-Winning Concert Pianist; Benjamina Karić, Mayor of Sarajevo; Fadi Quran, Campaign Director at Avaaz; Jasmina Cibic, Artist and filmmaker; Justas Janauskas, Co-Founder of Vinted;  Matthew Caruana Galizia, Investigative Journalist and Director of The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation; Jesse Klaver, Leader of the Green Dutch Party; Tamara Srzentić Montenegro Minister for Public Administration, Digital Society and Media; Andrea Fernández Benéitez, Secretary of Equality for the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE)  and Melisa Erkurt, Journalist, and Author, Editor-in-Chief of Die Chefredaktion, an Instagram based medium that produces diverse journalism by and for young people.