Paul NEMITZ

Visiting Professor of Law, College of Europe; Retired Director and 'Consigliere principale' of the European Commission, co-author of The Open Future and its Enemies – How we can protect free society from AI Dictatorship, April 2026, and Die Offene Zukunft und ihre Feinde – Wie wir die freie Gesellschaft vor der KI Diktatur bewahren können, June 2026

Paul NEMITZ is the chairperson of the Arthur Langerman Foundation at the Technical University of Berlin and a trustee of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York. He is a member of the board of Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie e.V. and the Committee for Media and Internet Policy of the SPD Board, Berlin. He is also chair of the Archivum Apertum Foundation and a member of the advisory board of the Future Institute of John Cabot University, Rome. He is also European Ambassador of the Boston Global Forum and Honorary Representative of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in Italy and to the Holy See.

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Publications
17/04/2026

The open future and its enemies

How we can protect free society from AI dictatorship
29/01/2026

Progressive Yearbook 2026

In an eerie manner, 2025 resembled the ‘time of monsters’, which, according to the great […]
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Progressive Post
25/06/2026

A Social Democrat’s guide to Magnifica Humanitas

Pope Leo XIV speaks truth to AI tech power and inequality
06/05/2026

A post-Trump world of AI and democracy with Europe in the lead

US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has sunk to around 30 per cent. In Europe, […]
18/05/2019

No reason for AI and GAFAM to escape democratic oversight

How to shape technology so that it strengthens democracy, rather than weakening it?
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Events
14 JAN

Time to build a European digital ecosystem

FEPS HQ (Expert meeting - Hybrid)
07 DEC

Shaping Europe’s digital model

European Parliament, Brussels
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Audiovisual

‘Time to build a European digital ecosystem’ Flickr album

Photo album of the event ‘Time to build a European digital ecosystem‘ Despite its role […]