On November 8, 2025, the WP4 & 5 Taiwan team was honored to invite John Stauffer, Legal Director and Deputy Executive Director of Civil Rights Defenders. He gave us a talk on “Democratic Backsliding in Europe and the Impact on the Nordics.”  E-Ling Chiu, a long-time human rights activist and the National Director of Amnesty International Taiwan, and Prof. Chao-ju Chen, a prominent scholar of law and society and Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University College of Law, joined the panel to provide perspectives from Taiwan.