If we look into the propaganda machinery of authoritarian regimes, they say democracy is messy, slow and inefficient. They are right. But there is nothing better than democracy to protect people, says @pomianowski.bsky.social

⌛ We close the event with the shifting role of democracy and human rights in EU foreign policy.

“Democracy support is a long-term investment. That is something difficult to translate into immediate results. Whatever we do outside of the EU, we do it also for ourselves”.

@pomianowski.bsky.social

▪️ Ambassador Olof Skoog, EU Special Representative for Human Rights
▪️ Jerzy Pomianowski, Executive Director of the @eedemocracy.bsky.social
▪️ Moderator: @elenepanchulidze.bsky.social, Research Coordinator, @epd.eu

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