In 2025, the world crossed a threshold. Economic security, democratic governance, and geopolitical competition ceased to be parallel policy domains and instead converged into a single, defining challenge for democratic societies in the shifting global order. For European democracies, resilience was no longer a matter of aspiration, but of survival.

It is against this backdrop that the Center for the Study of Democracy continued its mission: to bridge evidence and decision-making - translating data into policy, research into reform, and diagnosis into implementation.