While EU leaders meet, #DefendDemocracy held its own #EUsummit:

EPC Chief Executive @FabianZuleeg joined our monthly #DemocracyDrinks to discuss how Europe can defend its liberal #democracy by taking decisive action asap.

#EUCO #EUpol

https://www.epc.eu/publication/Europe-can-defend-its-liberal-democracy-if-it-reclaims-common-ground-64ff78/

Honoured to welcome EU Commission VP @VeraJourova at our monthly #DemocracyDrinks.

Coming from Czechia, a former communist state,

“I was grateful to President VonDerLeyen for giving me the [European values] portfolio, because I knew exactly what I *didn’t* want to happen in our EU countries.”

#DefendDemocracy #EUpol

On Tuesday 19 November, meet EU Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova at our monthly #DemocracyDrinks in Brussels.

At the end of her mandate, this is your chance to ask her a final question about #democracy and to say goodbye in person.

RSVP: https://crm.defenddemocracy.eu/civicrm/mailing/view/?id=64&reset=1 #EUpol

Inspiring #DemocracyDrinks with our new Advisory Board member, former MEP Sophie in 't Veld.

She urges European Parliament to do its job as democratic watchdog: "Less bark, more bite!"

https://defenddemocracy.eu/about/advisory-board/ #DefendDemocracy #EUpol

Happy to celebrate International Democracy Day with democracy defenders from Brussels & beyond!

With great food for thought from prof. Michael Bruter.

Thanks BELvue museum for hosting this #IDDBrussels edition of our monthly #DemocracyDrinks !

https://defenddemocracy.eu/projects/democracy-drinks/

Energised by a special edition of our monthly #DemocracyDrinks!

With @IvDragicevic, Croatia's N1 Television executive producer international news & Europa Award winner for TV journalism.

Join or help start a #DemocracyDrinks near you:

https://defenddemocracy.eu/projects/democracy-drinks/

Honoured to welcome #Belgium's former Ambassador to Ukraine @JZikmundova55 & Deputy Head of @UA_EUMission Serhiy Tereshko at last week's #DemocracyDrinks to exchange about #Ukraine's fight for freedom & #democracy. For theirs, and for ours.

#DefendDemocracy

https://defenddemocracy.eu/projects/democracy-drinks/

This week we invited our Brussels' #DemocracyDrinks community to @Europarl_EN for a guided tour of the exposition '#Art in #Democracy'. We all loved it!

Until 7 January 2024, view the fight for democratic values through the eyes of contemporary European artists:

https://art-collection.europarl.europa.eu/en/exhibitions/art-in-democracy/

Last week we relaunched the #Vilnius chapter of our #DemocracyDrinks!

Thanks for inspiring contributions, Sandra Adomavičiūtė (Open Lithuania), Ambassador Germanavičienė & Nathan Law!

Sign up here for new #democracy networking meet-ups in #Lithuania: https://democracydrinks.org/vilnius/

Happy International #DemocracyDay!

We celebrate #democracy, security & resilience in #Finland.

And the anniversary of the Helsinki chapter of our #DemocracyDrinks!

Or, in Finnish: #Demokratiadrinkit.

https://democracydrinks.org