Plenary Session 4 – From Populism to Authoritarianism – is the erosion of democracy inevitable?
8 November 2024 - 9.00-10.00 / Hemicycle, Palais de l’Europe
INTERPRETATION: FR/EN
Maîtres de cérémonie:
Annette Gerlach from Berlin is a bilingual journalist and TV host for ARTE, the European cultural channel she joined when it was founded in 1992. She presents the daily news programme as well as prestigious live music events from La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, the Paris Opera, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Salzburg Festival, and the Savonlinna Festival in Finland. She is also in charge of developing Educ'ARTE and ARTE Campus in Germany, ARTE's educational tools for schools and universities. Annette Gerlach is a regular speaker at conferences, round tables, symposia or award ceremonies for the Council of Europe or the European Parliament, among other institutions and associations. She also does coaching for television and stage presentations.
Alex Taylor is a European journalist. He has produced and presented TV and radio programmes for 30 years, mainly on French TV and radio (France Télévisions, France Inter), but also for international broadcasters (Euronews, TV5 Monde, ARTE, BBC). He was Programme Director for Radio France Internationale in charge of implementing the current 24 hours news format. Parallel to journalism, he has hosted some 1 500 international conferences on a wide variety of topics, especially environmental issues. He has also written a best seller on his passion, languages, of which he speaks (more or less) 7. He also once worked as a camel trainer in a circus.
Moderator:
Caitríona DOYLE, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the Council of Europe
Panel:
Frédéric BIERRY, President of the European collectivity of Alsace, France
Renzo Diaz Giunta is a Peruvian lawyer with a degree in Law from the University of Lima. He currently serves as the International Director of Constitutional Law at ODM (Organización Democrática Mundial por el Desarrollo), is a constitutional advisor to the Secretariat of Academic Affairs at the CIED of the National University San Antonio Abad of Cusco, and works as an associate lawyer at iGlobal Lawyer (Italy). He has experience with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Constitutional Court of Peru, and the Congress of the Republic of Peru. He is a member of the International Association of Constitutional Law (Sweden) and the Generation Democracy network of the International Republican Institute (USA). Additionally, he was a Youth Delegate to the Council of Europe in 2023 and a Fellow of IREX and USAID for the project “CREDIBLE: Voices of Youth.” He also represented Peru at the XXXVII Meeting of High Authorities on Human Rights of Mercosur. Furthermore, during the coup d'état led by former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo in December 2022, he played a key role in restoring constitutional order by peacefully removing him from office using constitutional mechanisms, for which he received an award in 2023.
Georgios KATROUGALOS, Independent Expert on a Democratic and Equitable International Order of the United Nations, Greece
Conservation of Generations
Raffaella Y. NANETTI, Ph.D, Professor Emerita, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illenois at Chicago
Jaden BRAVES, Chief Executive Officer of the Young Politicians of Canada
Raha, Young refugee from Afghanistan