Progressive Governance Summit 2024

Rising cost of living, the unfolding climate crisis and international armed conflicts are contributing to an age of insecurity felt by many. For progressives, the main challenge is to achieve a better and fairer society in these politically testing times.

Leading international politicians, thinkers and strategists from both sides of the Atlantic joined together to explore how to make an impactful contribution to shaping a comprehensive concept of progressive security. 

This year’s Progressive Governance Summit explored how to champion change in times of uncertainty and create momentum to turn progressive security into political action.

FEPS co-organised three forums at the Progressive Governance Summit with Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung:

Europe’s Economic Security Beyond Competitiveness: Pushing for Social Progress in the Single Market

With speakers:

• Miguel Costa Matos, Vice-President, Socialist Party Parliamentary Group, Portugal
• Mojca Kleva, President, Progresiva, Slovenia
• Veronica Nelson, Chief Economist, Social Democratic Workers’ Party, Sweden

Multilateral Governance for the 21st Century: UN Reforms and Global Security

With speakers:

• Ann Linde, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and FEPS Special Advisor on Foreign Affairs
• Diego Martínez Belío, State Secretary for Foreign and Global Affairs, Spain

New Eastern Policy and Enlargement: A Democratic and Capable European Union in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape

With speakers:

• Ruxandra Ivan, Associate Professor, University of Bucharest
• Tiago Antunes, Former Secretary of State for European Affairs of Portugal
  Professor, University of Lisbon
• Thijs Reuten, Dutch Member of the European Parliament, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
• Tudor Ulianovschi, Chief External and Corporate Development Officer, 2050 | Former
  Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova
  

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Lea Ypi, Author of “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History” were among the speakers. More info here.

For more information, please contact Céline Guedes, FEPS Project Officer (celine.guedes@feps-europe.eu).