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World
No to a European army!
Speech by Ralf Dekker MP to the Dutch Parliament, 18 March 2025 Chairman, Forum for Democracy has argued here on many occasions that the European response to the geopolitical tensions which have arisen in the context of …
By Ralf Dekker
Politics
Climate Policy Must Stop
Climate policy must stop Speech by Lidewij de Vos in the Second Chamber of the Dutch parliament. 12 March 2025 Chairman, Thank you, Chairman. Climate change is of all times. 150,000 years ago, we were in the middle of …
By Lidewij de Vos
World
Can We Avoid Wasting the Unique Opportunity Offered to Us by Trump’s Presidency?
This speech was given at the Istropolis Summit, Primaciálny palác, Bratislava, March 7, 2025. I don’t intend to analyse and critically evaluate the details of Trump’s policies announced or introduced in the first days …
By Václav Klaus
Politics
Lawfare Kills Democracy in Romania and Beyond
The original article was published on ActiveNews and can be read here . Romanian authorities seem determined to compound the attack on freedom and democracy they began by cancelling the presidential election in …
By Stephan Marshall
World
A plea for realism
Speech given in the Second Chamber of the Netherlands’ Estates-General, 5 March 2025 During the previous debate on the Ukraine conflict, Forum for Democracy tabled a motion calling on the government to look to the …
By Ralf Dekker
World
The ARC Conference: Reinventing liberalism
A couple of weeks ago, a small delegation of Forum for Democracy travelled to London for the second global conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. We were joined by 4000 other people from all over the …
By Vincent Vos
Economy
Bulgarians demonstrate against the Euro
On February 22, 2025, a protest took place in front of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) in defence of the Bulgarian national currency, the lev, and against the manipulation and forced entry of Bulgaria into the …
By Rada Laykova MEP
World
Trump & Putin's Peace Plan: What will the EU do?
This speech was originally delivered by Dutch MP Ralf Dekker, in a plenary debate on the Ukraine-conflict on 18 February 2025. Chairman, Formally, the Cold War came to an end around the year 1990. However, the deeper …
By Editorial Team
World
Ralf Dekker on Europe's view of Ukraine and NATO
This speech was originally delivered by Dutch MP Ralf Dekker, to the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs on 13 February 2025. Chairman, For the first time in three years, there has been renewed contact between …
By Editorial Team
Politics
The Totalitarian Temptation: how Democracies End
In an interview Sarah Knafo MEP gave to C News, following the brutal murder of an 11-year old French girl in a Paris suburb, she quoted the famous French political scientist, Jean-François Revel, who said that a …
By Sarah Knafo MEP
Politics
The Wtmo: An Open Attack on Opposition and Free Speech
By Forum for Democracy, 5 February 2025 On 4 February, the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament debated the proposed Social Organisation Transparency Act (WTMO), put forward by former minister and current chairman of the …
By Editorial Team
Opinion
The End of the Civic Virtue Bubble and the Death of God
There are two varieties of pessimism. Radical pessimism: this is simply called pessimism. And sober pessimism. This is called realism. Facing this in all severity, the question arises whether it is possible to …
By Sid Lukkassen
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