As European elections approach and the regulation on political advertising nears completion, the Lisbon Council convened the High-Level Working Lunch on Free Speech, Democracy and the Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising.
Among the VIP participants were Leslie Miller, vice-president of government affairs and public policy at YouTube, Daniel Braun, head of cabinet for Věra Jourová, vice-president for transparency and values at the of the European Commission, and a host of leading human-rights NGOs, free-speech advocates, think tankers and digital literati.