Yasmin
Al-Douri
Yasmin Al-Douri
Co-Director
Responsible Technology Hub
Biography
Yasmin Al-Douri is a Landecker Democracy Fellow, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Responsible Technology Hub, a non-profit organisation focused on the intergenerational creation of a responsible tech future. She has worked for different big tech companies and collaborated with a variety of institutions on responsible and ethical tech. She was named Young Global Changer in 2022. She was included in the Forbes 30 under 30.
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Speaker session
CONNECT.REFLECT.ACT TALK
How to Make Europe a People’s Project?
- Protecting democracy and civic space in Europe
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
After 70 years of unprecedented socioeconomic integration, the EU continues to evolve through processes that largely marginalize citizens’ input. It remains virtually impossible for an EU citizen – not to mention its residents – to express his/her desire for a change in the Union’s direction and hold its institutions accountable. If the EU has constitutionally embraced a model of democracy under which citizen participation forms an additional source of legitimacy for the Union in its day-to-day decision-making, this has not translated into a major transformation in how citizens participate in the Union’s democratic life, on EU Election Day and beyond. This is concretely due to the absence of both a pan-EU electoral party system and pan-EU public sphere. This talk suggests new bottom up approaches aimed at democratizing the EU project at a critical time for the continent.
Alberto Alemanno | Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, HEC Paris | Founder, The Good Lobby | www.albertoalemanno.eu
Moderator:
Friso Roscam Abbing
Curator Fundamental Rights Forum 2024
FRA
Alberto Alemanno
Professor of Law
HEC Paris
Biography
Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor of EU law at HEC Paris and visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. A leading voices on Europe’s democratisation, his research centres on how the law can be used to counter social, health, economic and political disparities of access within society. He founded the The Good Lobby, which envisions a society where power is accessible to all.
Country
Speaker session
CONNECT.REFLECT.ACT TALK
How to Make Europe a People’s Project?
- Protecting democracy and civic space in Europe
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
After 70 years of unprecedented socioeconomic integration, the EU continues to evolve through processes that largely marginalize citizens’ input. It remains virtually impossible for an EU citizen – not to mention its residents – to express his/her desire for a change in the Union’s direction and hold its institutions accountable. If the EU has constitutionally embraced a model of democracy under which citizen participation forms an additional source of legitimacy for the Union in its day-to-day decision-making, this has not translated into a major transformation in how citizens participate in the Union’s democratic life, on EU Election Day and beyond. This is concretely due to the absence of both a pan-EU electoral party system and pan-EU public sphere. This talk suggests new bottom up approaches aimed at democratizing the EU project at a critical time for the continent.
Alberto Alemanno | Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, HEC Paris | Founder, The Good Lobby | www.albertoalemanno.eu
Moderator:
Friso Roscam Abbing
Curator Fundamental Rights Forum 2024
FRA
Amjad Almatni
Student member of the Central Representation Council of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
DeStereotyped
Biography
Amjad Almatni is a Syrian living in the Netherlands. He founded DeStereotyped, a platform for young activists. He is also the Founder of Refugee Enough, a movement aimed at raising awareness of intersectionality within the refugee community. He is studying public administration at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and is a student Member of its Central Representation Council.
Country
Speaker session
CONNECT.REFLECT.ACT TALK
How to Make Europe a People’s Project?
- Protecting democracy and civic space in Europe
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
After 70 years of unprecedented socioeconomic integration, the EU continues to evolve through processes that largely marginalize citizens’ input. It remains virtually impossible for an EU citizen – not to mention its residents – to express his/her desire for a change in the Union’s direction and hold its institutions accountable. If the EU has constitutionally embraced a model of democracy under which citizen participation forms an additional source of legitimacy for the Union in its day-to-day decision-making, this has not translated into a major transformation in how citizens participate in the Union’s democratic life, on EU Election Day and beyond. This is concretely due to the absence of both a pan-EU electoral party system and pan-EU public sphere. This talk suggests new bottom up approaches aimed at democratizing the EU project at a critical time for the continent.
Alberto Alemanno | Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, HEC Paris | Founder, The Good Lobby | www.albertoalemanno.eu
Moderator:
Friso Roscam Abbing
Curator Fundamental Rights Forum 2024
FRA