Club de Madrid Articles

Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on Women’s Day: “Dear girls & women: follow fearlessly the path that each of you have chosen as your own!”

Message from Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga on the occasion of the Women's International Day On this 8 March, the official Women's day adopted by the United Nations, I send my warmest greetings of universal sisterhood to girls and women across the world. I celebrate the...

Club de Madrid Members Kok and Lagumdzija advocate for inclusive societies in London and Oxford

Wim Kok - former PM of the Netherlands - and Zlatko Lagumdzija- former PM of Bosnia and Herzegovina - recently led a mission to London and Oxford as part of the project Shared Societies. The theme of the mission was Strategy on Environmental Sustainability and Shared...

Club de Madrid Members will discuss Sustainable Development, Conflict Prevention and Migration at the World Bank Fragility Forum and at the United Nations

Sustainable Development, Conflict Prevention and Migration are three global issues on which our members have much to say. They are also the pillars of the mission “Engaging with World Bank and United Nations on key issues from an inclusion perspective” led by former...

Populism, political mistrust and misinformation in the digital era, main topics of the NGD America Round Table in San Francisco

The Next Generation Democracy (NGD) project roundtable was structured in four different panels each of them analyzing a different angle of the current state of Democracy in North America. On top of that, another aim of the NGD America meeting was to break the silos...

Yves Leterme: “The European welfare system has been able to deliver inclusive policies and tackle inequality”

May 8, 2019

A conversation around political campaigning and the digital space, with a focus on Warsaw and Poland.

Rajoy, Monti and Michel join Club de Madrid

Apr 30, 2019

Club de Madrid (CdM), the largest forum of democratically elected former Heads of State and Government, added 3 new Members to an extensive list of leaders working to promote democratic values, good governance and the well-being of citizens. Thanks to these new additions, Club de Madrid currently...