The third day of the Ágora-R 2026 Conference turned the city into a space for reflection on European rearmament and the media narrative surrounding conflicts. The event addressed the key factors explaining current geopolitical shifts in an international context marked by war and instability.
At 6:00 p.m., Tica Font opened the program with the lecture “Your wars, our deaths! Europe and its rearmament plan.” The researcher at the Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau questioned the main fallacies surrounding the so-called “Russian threat,” noting that European military spending triples that of Russia. Her analysis linked the increase in defense investment to the EU’s industrial and strategic interests.
At 8:00 p.m., Anna Gabriel i Sabaté presented “No Hatred in Our Streets! Municipalism Against the Far Right.” Drawing on her activist and institutional experience, she argued that local councils can act as a democratic barrier against the far right, promoting neighborhood networks and grassroots structures that turn public space into territory free of hate.
The conference will continue tomorrow, Saturday, March 21, with Aníbal Garzón, who will explore the transition toward a multipolar world order, highlighting the role of the Global South and the BRICS; and with Francesca Cicardi, who will address the situation in Palestine and international solidarity in the face of genocide in Gaza.
Tomorrow we will have the opportunity to continue analyzing and debating the construction of a critical forum aimed at examining the contradictions of the current international system during the final day of Ágora-R 2026.
Nobody will do it for us!