Ideas for the future of Europe
For the world with heart and courage
Ideas for the future of Europe
For the world with heart and courage
Welcome
The world is changing fast. We create space to reflect on scenarios for our future. This is a place to stop, think and bring out innovative ideas. Europe Future Centre is a hub created by a group of experts in the fields of international and EU affairs, strategic communication, information and democracy resilience.
Who are we?
Ivana Dragičević
Ivana Dragičević
Ivana Dragičević
International Affairs Strategic Expert, STRATCOM Adviser, Founder of Europe Future Centre
Dragan Nikolić
Ivana Dragičević
Ivana Dragičević
International Affairs Strategic Expert, STRATCOM Adviser, Co-Founder of Europe Future Centre
About Europe Future Centre
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
At Europe Future Centre, we believe that navigating a world in turmoil requires fresh ideas, bold dialogue, and truly global perspectives.
Our mission is to connect thinkers, strategists, and visionaries from diverse regions and backgrounds — bridging continents, disciplines, and ideologies — to create new concepts for a changing world.
We
At Europe Future Centre, we believe that navigating a world in turmoil requires fresh ideas, bold dialogue, and truly global perspectives.
Our mission is to connect thinkers, strategists, and visionaries from diverse regions and backgrounds — bridging continents, disciplines, and ideologies — to create new concepts for a changing world.
We open dialogues where others see divides, fostering connections between the unconnectable.
Through tailor-made insights and strategic guidance, we support business leaders, policymakers, think tanks, institutes, and NGOs who seek to understand, anticipate, and shape the future of global geopolitics.
Our Team
Our Mission
Our Mission
We are Southeastern Europe natives and former award-winning international affairs correspondents, now trusted strategic experts in global geopolitics.
Our experience goes far beyond covering international events — we know firsthand the heads of states, diplomats, key figures shaping the global arena. We put information into context, provid
We are Southeastern Europe natives and former award-winning international affairs correspondents, now trusted strategic experts in global geopolitics.
Our experience goes far beyond covering international events — we know firsthand the heads of states, diplomats, key figures shaping the global arena. We put information into context, providing clarity in a complex and fast-changing world.
Our Southeastern European heritage gives us a distinct perspective and unique connections across , not just Europe, but Africa, Asia, North and Latin America, bridging regions and stereotypes.
With decades of experience in international affairs and defending information integrity, we offer unmatched insights that connect all the dots of today’s global political dynamics,.
NEWS
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE AT DELPHI ECONOMIC FORUM 2025
Our Ivana Dragičević moderated two important panels at this year jubilant 10th Delphi Economic Forum.
On New Era in EU-US Relations, she talked to Jenna Ben-Yehuda, Executive Vice President of Atlantic Council, USA
Video is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubiBy6EU-Kc
Other panel dealt with Bridging Divides: Advancing Sustainable Peace Through Dialogue and Cooperation, with panelists: Nomi Bar-Yaacov, International Lawyer, Arbitrator & Mediator, Fellow, Global Fellowship Initiative, Geneva Centre for Security Policy Asaad Al Shamlan, Director of European Studies Center, Prince Saud Al Faisal Institute for Diplomatic Studies Henri J. Barkey, Adjunct Sen. Fellow, Middle East studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Cohen Prof. of Int.l Relations, Lehigh University, USA
Video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHHBGWKSXyg
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT VOICES FESTIVAL
Our Ivana Dragičević participated at Voices Festival of journalism and media literacy where she moderated important panel on Artificial Intelligence and its influence on our information ecosystems.
Behind this festival stands a varied consortium of European organisations committed to enhance media freedom and media literacy as essential elements for the functioning of our democratic societies.
These are the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (lead partner based at the European University Institute), the European Federation of Journalists, the AISBL EBU-UER, The European Association for Viewers Interests, Journalisme et Citoyenneté, Lie Detectors and Savoir*Devenir. Voices is co-funded by the European Union.
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE AT MEDAYS IN MOROCCO
At 16th edition of MEDays, one of the most important African geopolitical and business forums held in Tangier, Morocco from 27th-30th of November 2024, our Dragan Nikolić hosted and moderated two important panels, Global Governance in Crisis: Reinventing Multilateralism for a Multipolar Era (including three Caribbean states prime ministers keynote speeches, focused on joint global fight against climate change) and Setting the Course: Defining the EU's Geopolitical and Defense Roadmap.
MEDays are organized annually by Amadeus Institute, under the auspices of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.
PANEL ON EU GEOPOLITICAL AND DEFENSE ROADMAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWQ2S7YBKJI
PANEL ON GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN CRISIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ1y2_WT7wU&list=PLR07MjDuNkCt1JcHS-Ci0XDGGhAPA4KG2&index=6
REPORT ON THE PANEL ON GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN CRISIS : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AUrmRYMrXM
NEWS
EUROPE'S FUTURES ANNUAL MEETING IN VIENNA
The Europe’s Futures joint project by IWM - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen and ERSTE Foundation brings together thinkers from various sectors and disciplines, supporting their research and analytical exploration of new perspectives for a cohesive and democratic #Europe. To date, this initiative has engaged 48 of Europe's top think tank experts, academics and journalists as fellows. One of the Europe's Futures Fellows is our Ivana Dragičević, who was in Vienna from 2 to 4 December 2024 to discuss internal and external challenges to peace and democratic order in Europe, as well as to plan future activities within the Europe’s Futures alumni network. She also moderated a panel on EU- US relations in geopolitical turmoil.
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE AT BLED STRATEGIC FORUM
At Bled Strategic Forum 2024, our Ivana Dragičević hosted and moderated important panel:
Post-Election EU – Acting or Sleepwalking?
Panelists included: Rastislav Chovanec, State Secretary, Foreign and European Affairs Ministry of Slovakia Elmedin Konaković, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Guillaume Klossa, Executive President, EuropaNova, France Igor Mally, State Secretary for European Affairs, Office of the Prime Minister of Slovenia Moderated by Ivana Dragičević, Journalist; Head of Europe Future Centre, Croatia
Video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r17JbkTzlzA
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE IN JAPAN
Ahead of early parliamentary elections for the Lower House of Japanese parliament, our Dragan Nikolić visited Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima this October to have a broader context and understanding of security situation in East Asia and wider Pacific region in which Japan plays a crucial role. During a multi-day program organized by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he talked with a number of established geopolitical and military experts and visited the base of the Japanese Naval Self-Defense Forces in Kure. The Indo-Pacific security architecture, marked by an informal tripartite alliance of China, Russia and North Korea hides the danger that one of the separate crisis hot-spots from Kamchatka to the South China Sea might grow into a pretext for a global war and cause a massive global economic crisis.
You can read his article published in Nacional weekly, here:
EUROPE ELECTS, DOCUMENTARY SERIES BY DRAGAN NIKOLIĆ
Ahead of EU elections in June 2024. our Dragan Nikolić made a series of four documentary features on crucial issues for Europe - migration, through the story from Italy, rule of law on the case of Hungary, economic inequalities with the story from France, and rise of far-right on the example of Germany. Stories were made in cooperation with the office of European Parliament in Croatia, and were broadcasted on N1 TV, CNN affiliate for Adria Region.
You can watch all the episodes here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtkTKfgc4b4XdJc4jKSNWl73X7crdT8CB&si=v_eOD4dvg07Uju7H
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE AT DELPHI ECONOMIC FORUM 2024.
Our Ivana Dragičević participated at Delphi Economic Forum in April 2024.
She was a panelist on Europe Strategic Agenda 2024-2029. panel, where she emphasized the importance of strategic communication for European democracy resilience and including youth on equal footing in discussions on European strategic future. She also added that cooperation with Africa is crucial for the future of Europe.
She also moderated a panel on Middle East Security Architecture after Gaza war.
PANEL ON EUROPE STRATEGIC AGENDA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQUMmqRCIrA
PANEL ON MIDDLE EAST SECURITY ARCHITECTURE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubzkbQnkSh0
"UNSECURED" NEW BOOK BY IVANA DRAGIČEVIĆ
Insecurity. Word of today. New book by Ivana Dragičević was promoted in Lauba House in Zagreb in December 2023. With more than 350 guests, including President of the Republic of Croatia, Mayors of Zagreb and Pula, former ministers of foreign affairs both from liberal and conservative parties, it was labelled biggest ever book promotion in Croatia and "an event of the season" . Dragičević writes about security issue as the basis of today's world, from mental health and cognitive resilience to nuclear threat, climate change and wars. (foto: Vedran Husremović)
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE AT EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH
Our Ivana Dragičević participated at European Forum Alpbach.
She co-created “Youth as Key for Democratic Renewal” Lab initiated and funded by ERSTE Foundation and participated in the pitch session "Who is the future?" in which she presented a vision how to engage the "Next Generation” in political activity and processes.
https://www.alpbach.org/sessions/pitch-europe---who-is-the-future
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE IN BRASIL
On August 1st 2023. our Dragan Nikolić participated at the working breakfast organised by Brasilian president Inacio Lula Da Silva in Planalto Palace in Brasilia.
MEETING WITH BRASILIAN PRESIDENT
In times of huge changes in global geopolitics, Brasil is and will be one of the crucial players. Our Dragan Nikolić, together with group of international experts and journalists, in the meeting with Brasilian president, shared his thoughts on the role of Brasil in international relations and discussed Brasilian international priorities as climate change, environmental protection, poverty reduction and global peace. (Brasilia, 1/08/23)
EUROPE FUTURE CENTRE AS PART OF FORESIGHT TEAM FOR 2024. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS
Our Ivana Dragičević participated at strategic foresight group meeting organized by Visegrad Insight and d|part, Berlin-based think tank on political participation, within an EU-funded project to energise a forward-looking debate among EU civil society actors about the European parliamentary elections scheduled for June 2024. The project's objective is to discuss and develop scenarios for the development of the EU, with a particular focus on EU democracy and strategic autonomy.
Europe Future Blog
Europe at 80: V-E Day's Legacy and Battle for Democracy Today
4 May 2025|EU
As the European Union marks 80 years since the end of World War II in 2025, the European Democracy Shield (EDS) emerges as a vital initiative to protect democratic institutions from foreign interference and disinformation. Proposed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the EDS targets threats ranging from Kremlin-orchestrated campaigns to the polarizing influence of figures like Donald Trump. Yet, the EU’s focus on Europe Day, May 9, over the symbolic weight of the WWII anniversary reveals a missed opportunity to frame this defense within the historical context of Europe’s hard-won peace.
The end of WWII in 1945 was a triumph of democratic resilience against authoritarianism, a legacy that resonates with today’s challenges. The Kremlin’s tactics—such as the TikTok campaign that boosted far-right candidate Călin Georgescu in Romania’s 2024 election, later annulled for foreign rigging—echo the propaganda wars of the past. Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, with his pro-Kremlin media and “Sovereignty Protection Act,” further amplifies disinformation, undermining democratic trust. Across the Atlantic, Trump’s rhetoric, from dismissing NATO to aligning with illiberal leaders, mirrors Kremlin narratives, like blaming Ukraine for Russia’s invasion. These converging threats, amplified by platforms like X under figures like Elon Musk, demand a robust European response.
The EDS, set for development in 2025, aims to counter these assaults through enhanced disinformation detection, media literacy, and defenses against AI deepfakes, building on the Digital Services Act. A dedicated committee will address legislative gaps, focusing on cyberattacks and hybrid threats. However, the EU’s choice to center its identity on Europe Day—commemorating the 1950 Schuman Declaration—rather than leveraging the 80th anniversary of WWII’s end, sidelines a powerful symbol of unity against tyranny. This anniversary could have galvanized public support for the EDS, framing it as a continuation of the fight for democratic values forged in 1945.
By rooting the EDS in the historical lessons of WWII, the EU could strengthen its narrative, ensuring that the shield not only protects but also inspires a continent shaped by its past.
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