European Parliament Money Helped Fund a Closed-Door Meeting on Resistance to Trump and MAGA

Natalie Winters' reporting is plugging a lot of holes in the Democracy Files from a different direction.

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… president for the rest of his second term.”

The June 3 meeting examined where Democratic Party, activist and NGO resistance was working—and how European progressives could learn from it and strengthen transatlantic cooperation.

The agenda spells it out:

“CLOSED DOOR ROUNDTABLE.”

“financial support of the European Parliament.”

European Parliament Vice-President Katarina Barley convened it. The Foundation for European Progressive Studies and Germany’s Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung organized it.

Professor Cas Mudde delivered the keynote, according to the organizers’ recap.