When the Conference on the Future of Europe was launched in 2021, Europe was at peace and had been since the war in ex-Yugoslavia in the 1990s. If the invitation to engage in a conversation about Europe’s future seemed ambitious a year ago, imagine what it looks like from today’s perspective.
In fact, there has probably been no better time to talk about the future of Europe and in particular the future of European democracy than today. Democracy has been the foundation of peaceful...