This contribution to the symposium explores one dimension of planetary politics under the broader framework of the third democratic transformation—an ongoing shift across all levels of governance, from the local to the global through the regional, despite the rise of anti-democratic forces worldwide.

The article begins by exploring the new frontier of normative power Europe from a post-colonial perspective, arguing that the European Union can serve as a laboratory for democratic transformation. The analysis focuses on four key interrogations—decentring, doubting, experimenting, and decolonising—that shape this shift.

The study then presents a descriptive-normative typology outlining six interconnected evolutions in democratic governance: trans-temporal, transnational, trans-modal, trans-local, trans-scalar, and translational. It concludes by discussing the conditions necessary for this transformation to materialise.