• If Poland wants to receive EU funding in the future, it must resolve the issue of judicial independence.

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In our very first #Forum2000online Chat Summer Special, three experts share their research and knowledge on topics of data technology. Didi Kirsten Tatlow, a researcher at the German Council on Foreign Relations, moderates the debate with Xiao Qiang, a renowned expert on U.S-China relationship and Editor-in-Chief of the China Digital Times, and Ulises Mejias, Communication Studies Professor and the author of a book on data colonization. Key takeaways:

• What classical colonialism and data colonialism have in common is their function of extraction.

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In this week's #Forum2000online Chat, Ana Karina López Ramón, a political journalist from Ecuador and a founding partner of Fundamedios, an organization promoting freedom of expression and monitoring threats to freedom of the press in Latin America, talks about the change between the two Presidential administrations of Ecuador and its impact on the media.  

In this interview, you will learn that:  

• Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa used different means to attack free journalism.

Ana Karina López Ramón is a founding partner of Fundamedios. She works on monitoring the media landscape and attacks on free journalism in Ecuador. Her book on the former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa was awarded the municipality’s book of the year for journalism.   

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In this week's #Forum2000online Chat, Konstantin von Eggert, a specialist on Russian affairs, speaks with Miriam Lanskoy from National Endowment for Democracy. They discuss the impact of Navalny’s movement and the chances of Russian opposition, the challenges that lie ahead of the US new administration, and whether we understand Putin’s language of power.  

• The elections in Russia have very little in common with proper elections. 

Konstantin von Eggert is an independent journalist, political analyst and communications consultant. He is a weekly Russian affairs columnist for Deutsche Welle and a contributor to TV Rain, Russia’s independent TV channel.

The interview was recorded on June 15, 2021, and moderated by Miriam Lanskoy, Senior Director for Russia and Eurasia at the National Endowment for Democracy. 

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Didi Kirsten Tatlow, a specialist on China and the author of “China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage”, speaks about the historical reasons behind China's battle for global technological dominance, its newest techniques and most importantly about the threats that it raises to democratic societies.

In this interview, you will learn that:

•  CCP is building up its technological capability, and the West is assisting it, without being fully aware.

Didi Kirsten Tatlow is a senior fellow at the Asia Program at the German Council of Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin, Germany, and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Projekt Sinopsis in Prague, Czechia.

The interview was recorded on May 31, 2021, and moderated by sinologist and journalist Kateřina Procházková, Sinopsis, Czech Republic.

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This video was prepared as part of the International Coalition for Democratic Renewal and its Youth Working Group, which addresses the role of young active people in supporting democracy and human rights.

“I would say that the only maybe long-lasting and sustainable changes are brought up when young people or people in general are creating communities.“

Jelena Milutinović is the Head of Development of Youth Initiative for Human Rights based in Serbia. As an experienced human rights educator who is highly dedicated to promoting civil society, she also participates in one of Forum 2000's initiatives - the International Coalition for Democratic Renewal. In this week's #Forum2000online Chat, Mrs Milutinović talks about the importance of youth engagement in shaping the democratic future of Serbia and other East European countries. As such, the interview not only provides for an in-depth understanding of the problems that younger generations face but also lays down the ways of overcoming them.

“Be persistent. Of course, you won´t be always able to do everything you wanted but something similar to that could be quite as satisfying as the thing that you originally wanted to do,“ advises Mrs Milutinović.

The interview was recorded on May 26, 2021 and moderated by Hasler Iglesias, Youth leader of the Voluntad Popular and Coordinator of the Youth Working Group of the International Coalition for Democratic Renewal from Venezuela.

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“Then what would we've become. What would we've called ourselves? You can hardly call yourself Great Britain when you're only England. Little Britain? Or just England?“

Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, is a Scottish barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. From 1992 -1997 she served as a Chair of Charter 88, a pressure group named after Charter 77 that advocated constitutional reform including devolution of parliament and establishment of the Scottish Parliament. In our newest #Forum2000online Chat, we discuss the historical roots as well as current moods in Scotland that had a critical influence on the results of the Scottish elections held on May 6. Why nationalist appeals seem to win in a historically Labour-voting country? Is there going to be another independence referendum? What is the future of the United Kingdom if Scotland breaks away?

“The different parts help to leaven some of the ways of thinking that operate in different places,“ says Baroness Kennedy to demonstrate the benefits of the union.

The interview was recorded on May 20, 2021 and moderated by Irena Kalhousová, member of the Program Council of the Forum 2000 Foundation.

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“People should understand that this is what they need – the right to peace is what they need.“

Gulnara Shahinian is an international expert on human rights and people trafficking and the founder and Chair of Democracy Today. During the years 2008–2015, she served as the UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery. Since 2009 she works as an expert on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings in the Council of Europe. In our newest #Forum2000online Chat, Mrs Shahinian talks about the right to peace – a right to have human rights promoted, protected and realised.

The interview was recorded on May 13, 2021 and moderated by Jonathan Cooper, barrister and human rights activist from the United Kingdom.

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“Both the element of equality and the element of popular sovereignty, which are crucial values of democracy, have been left aside.“

Chantal Mouffe is a Belgian political theorist and former Professor at the University of Westminster. She also held research positions at Harvard, Cornell, the University of California, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and others. Together with Ernesto Laclau, Professor Mouffe co-authored a very influential “Hegemony and Socialist Strategy“ – the magnum opus of the so-called Essex School of discourse analysis. As an expert on democratic theory, in this week´s #Forum2000online Chat Professor Mouffe talked about the crisis that liberal democracies around the globe seem to face. In this respect, the pandemics exacerbated the existing problems but also brought about completely new challenges in terms of exercising democratic powers.

“People are already accepting a series of limitations of their liberty which they would never have accepted before.“ The interview was recorded on May 6, 2021, and moderated by Arzu Geybulla, Azerbaijanian journalist and member of the Forum 2000 Program Council.

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“Overall I am quite optimistic because we see that civil society has many new initiatives in pockets. And we have many new people around us who can do something. But the government has already used all its weapons,“ says Leonid Drabkin from OVD-Info about the state of civil society after protests in Russia.

OVD-Info is an independent human rights project whose aim is to help the victims of political persecution in Russia. The project monitors arrests at public rallies, collecting information about the place of activists detainment, their need for assistance or legal aid and more. Symbolically, on the day of the 9th anniversary of the Bolotnaya Square rally, the biggest demonstration in Russia since the 1990s, #Forum2000online Chat publishes a discussion with the project´s general coordinator Leonid Drabkin. In the interview, Mr Drabkin talks about the OVD-Info project, the current protests against Navalny´s imprisonment and the future of civil society in Russia.

“We try to give a response. Because civil society – it´s about a response to the pressures government makes on our society.“

The interview was recorded on April 26, 2021, and moderated by Arzu Geybulla, columnist and writer from Azerbaijan.

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