A pilot programme for European Members of Parliament to tackle urgent economic and security challenges.

Discussions on the European Union’s enlargement, with the potential accession of new member states like Ukraine, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania are complex, raising urgent questions around security, strategic autonomy, and financial resilience of the European Union as a whole.

In 2024, the second edition of the OED Policy Design Sprint brought together eight policymakers from across Europe to develop a forward-thinking policy prototype over the course of seven weeks. We’re excited to share the final policy proposal and a detailed report on the collaborative process behind it! 

Chiara Rosselli, Head of the Open European Dialogue, Executive Director, APROPOS Rebecca Farulli, Program Manager of the Open European Dialogue, Associate and R&D Lead, APROPOS

Márton Tompos is a member of the Hungarian Parliament with the opposition party Momentum and a member of the Open European Dialogue (OED). In this interview, edited by Ronith Schalast, Program Manager of the Open European Dialogue, Márton shares his reflections on how the OED has been of support to him in his parliamentary work.

From 6-8 October, 51 members of parliament from across 28 different countries and representing a wide variety of political voices spent three days together in Helsinki at the 8th Annual Policymakers Dialogue “Architects of the Future: European Policymaking in Times of Uncertainty, Technological Disruption and Societal Adaptation”.