Club de Madrid Articles

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark urge concrete political action on pandemic preparedness

In response to the World Health Assembly (WHA) May 19th resolution last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) established the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR). The mission of this Panel is to impartially provide an evidence-based...

Peace in the Age of Chaos: How peace can help us solve global challenges

As the world was already struggling to juggle life-defining challenges such as climate change, decreasing biodiversity and food security, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early March 2020 provided additional mayhem that sent shock waves across the globe. Acting...

International perspectives on information policy and media development in the digital age

Digital transformations are putting the foundations of democracy to the test on a global scale. Regulators face the challenge of striking a balance between policy-making and freedom of expression when trying to address disinformation, fake news, hate speech and...

Europe Day: Let’s talk about the future of the European Union!

Europe Day marks the anniversary of the 'Schuman declaration', a foundational speech for the European integration process delivered by Robert Schuman in the year 1950. But let's not harken back to what happened 71 years ago. By launching the Conference on the Future...