COVID-19 has cast a spotlight on the difficulty faced by democracies around the world to deliver and meet the needs of large segments of their population – to protect their health, their livelihood, and their fundamental rights through an effective, balanced and fair response to the pandemic. This...
Policy success through anticipation: How to build a democratic culture of emergency preparedness?
While democracies are frequently put to test, having to remain adaptable to new contexts, innovations and challenges, the COVID-19 pandemic entailed a unique defiance to their resilience and capacity for renewal. The sudden global health crisis sent shock waves across every aspect of daily lives,...
Live Session: A renewed multilateral system- Towards positive and inclusive peace
International Peace and Security remains one of the foremost global challenges of our time. As the world juggles intractable problems from climate change to deep societal cleavages…
Juan Manuel Santos and 10 former presidents lead the NGD Roundtable about the future of democracy in the Americas
Beyond the outcomes already reached throughout NGD’s project development, a new debate will be held in which not only...
SDGs: No one left behind
President Roza Otunbayeva said, during her presentation at the ECOSOC session “From the MDGs to SDGs”, that Central...
Andrés Pastrana, new president of the Centrist Democrat International
The decision was taken at the meeting of leaders of 76 Christian Democrat and Social Christian political parties from...
Video summary: Zapatero and the Shared Societies Project in Tunis
The objective of the conference was analyzing the conditions for the success of the processes of decentralization in a...
Felipe González: “I fully support dialogue for reconciliation in Venezuela”
Speaking to the media, Felipe González discussed the worrying situation of democracy and human rights in Venezuela. He...
Launching the Foundation Shared Societies and Values Sarajevo (SSVSA)
Zlatko Lagumdzija, former Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina and Member of the Club de Madrid, is the Founder...
Extremism and violence hit Tunisia, France and Kuwait.
Months after the attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Bardo Museum that shocked the world,...
Club de Madrid Member, Jorge Sampaio, Laureate of the Nelson Mandela Prize 2015
Club de Madrid Member Jorge Sampaio has been chosen by the United Nations committee as one of the two laureates of the...
‘Sharing the burden-Sharing the benefits’, Club de Madrid call to the Addis Ababa Financing for Development Summit
SHARING THE BURDEN – SHARING THE BENEFITS An open letter to the Financing for Development Summit 22 June 2015 The...

