Can Democracy Survive The Polycrisis? | ECFR Annual Council Meeting 2023

The Annual Council Meeting 2023 took place on 7-8 June in Stockholm. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a turning point in European history. More than one year into the war, it is high time to go beyond crisis management mode and have a more long-term strategic look at how Europe can build the capacity and the global coalitions which are necessary to defend European interests in the world. The Annual Council Meeting 2023 in Stockholm will aim to offer both a very timely opportunity to discuss how Europeans have met the challenge of a war on its soil, and a strategic outlook at how Europe should handle the polycrisis of dire economic straits and global ripple effects as a result of the war. As such, the ACM will serve as an important reality check in which European decision-makers and opinion-shapers get to frankly exchange their ideas of the challenges and opportunities underlying this polycrisis. ---------------------------------------- Thursday, June 8th 2023 PANEL III: WHAT THE NEXT WORLD ORDER COULD LOOK LIKE Hina Rabbani Khar, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Pakistan Alexander Gabuev, Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Vera Songwe, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (virtual) Dong Wang, Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University, China Moderated by Mark Leonard, Director, ECFR PANEL IV: SHIELDING TOMORROW: SUPPORT TO UKRAINE AGAINST RUSSIAN AGGRESSION AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPEAN DEFENCE Pål Jonson, Minister of Defence, Sweden Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister, Ukraine (virtual) Nicu Popescu, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Moldova Ulrike Franke, Senior Policy Fellow, ECFR Moderated by Camille Grand, Distinguished Policy Fellow, ECFR PANEL V: CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE THE POLYCRISIS? Adam Tooze, Professor, Columbia University Moderated by Mark Leonard, Director, ECFR KEYNOTE SPEECH Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden Introduced by Carl Bildt, Co-Chair, ECFR ---------------------------------------- 00:00:00 Introduction to the Polycrisis 00:12:23 Financial, Climate, and Pandemic Crises 00:15:18 Chinese Security Bureaucracy Annual Council Meeting 2023, Day 2 | European Council on Foreign Relations playlist:    • Playlist   https://ecfr.eu