EU Ideas Lab: ‘Democracy thrives on an exchange of views’

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DAAD- alumni from Germany, Austria and Hungary are using a to find ways of jointly advancing democratic development in Europe. Sociologist Nóra Regös, psychologist Hannah Nussmann and educationalist Eduardo Felisberto Buanaissa report on why the weekend together has inspired them for the long term.

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