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Participants of the BSPC Working Group on Strengthening Cyber and Information Resilience to Promote Democracy (WG SCIRPD), Tallinn, 13 October 2025. From left to right:

Denmark: Per Husted – Germany: Johannes Schraps – Finland: Pauli Aalto-Setälä – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern:Beate Schlupp – Åland Islands: Benny Pettersson – Latvia: Kaspars Briškens – Chair: Meelis Kiili (Estonia) – Poland:Jarosław Wałęsa – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Philipp da Cunha – BSPC Secretary General: Jan Diedrichsen – Schleswig-Holstein: Marc Timmer – Baltic Assembly: Giedrius Drukteinis.

Visual identity for the BSPC Working Group on Strengthening Cyber and Information Resilience to Promote Democracy (WG SCIRPD), emphasising the democratic Baltic Sea Region in contrast to Russia and Belarus.

Åsa Wikforss, Professor of Philosophy at Stockholm University and member of the Swedish Academy, addresses delegates in Mariehamn during the final debate of the 34^th Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference. In her intervention, she warned of the corrosive effects of disinformation and algorithm-driven fragmentation on democracy, recalling Hannah Arendt’s dictum that opinion is meaningless without facts.

Alfons Röblom, Member of the Parliament of Åland and BSPC President 2024–2025, delivering his address at the opening session of the 34^th Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, Mariehamn, Åland, 25 August 2025

View of the plenary hall during the opening session of the 34^th Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, Mariehamn, Åland, 25 August 2025