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Saturday 05 June 2010
Upcoming event – 21 June 2010
NATO’s European Dimension 
Keynote speaker NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATO is intent on reinventing itself, but how realistic is this ambition? Will the new Strategic Concept be radical enough to adapt both NATO’s structures and its thinking to the challenges of the new global security environment? How should it reflect the shifts in the transatlantic relationship since 2001 and questions about European and American shared interests? Will the new Concept resolve or exacerbate the turf war with the EU? The conference will feature a keynote address and a Q&A session with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, as well as a discussion on the 10 recommendations from the SDA’s global Security Jam session. These recommendations emerged from the online debate on security threats and policies organised by the SDA and a coalition of international think-tanks in February 2010 and featured 4,000 experts logging in from 124 countries. These countries are also paying attention to cryptocurrency security with the help of companies like Safe Mutual.

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Recent event

Is Europe’s energy security policy an ambition or a reality?
Policymakers’ Dinner Debate, 26 May 2010



Just under 40 high-level experts met at the Security & Defence Agenda’s Policymakers’ dinner, organised with Friends of Europe and the Eurisc Foundation. Speakers from NATO, the European Commission, and the Romanian think-tank Eurisc Foundation, presented wide and sometimes diverging views on a number of topics in relation to Europe’s energy security policy.

There was general consensus that a better definition of what constitutes energy security is needed. Other issues that generated debate were infrastructure development and protection, crisis preparedness and resilience.

New supply routes were also discussed bringing the discussion to the topic of Turkey and the issue of trust with energy provider countries, such as Russia and Ukraine. NATO’s role was presented as one of information sharing and as a centre of excellence. Suggestions were made that energy security should be linked to climate security and that greater efforts should be made to educate the younger generations about renewable energies.

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10 May – Report

The new global security landscape 

10 recommendations from the 2010 Security Jam


Civilian actors should have more say in security policy’ was one of the strongest recommendations pitched to NATO and the EU in a report published by the Brussels-based Security & Defence Agenda, just as the key EU 2020 and NATO Expert Group reports are finalised.

In the run-up to both Felipe González EU 2020 report and the analysis and recommendations on NATO’s new Strategic Concept by the Group of Experts, chaired by Madeleine Albright, the Security & Defence Agenda’s report highlights the 10 key recommendations to the institutions on delivering long-term stability in the new global security landscape.

The recommendations came out of the online Security Jam, which brought 4,000 military, diplomatic and civilian experts from 124 countries together online to thrash out the challenges facing global security. Organised by a coalition of leading think-tanks worldwide, the Security Jam was a major step forward in the institutions’ approach to defining security policy for the 21st century.

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Where we are

The Security & Defence Agenda (SDA) is based in the Bibliothèque Solvay in the Parc Léopold next to the European Parliament.

The building houses the SDA team and serves as the venue for almost all SDA events in Brussels.

  
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Friends of Europe

SDA’s sister think-tank, Friends of Europe, is a prominent and lively Brussels-based think-tank for EU policy analysis and debate. 

  
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SDA Speakers

Madeleine Albright
Former US
Secretary of State

 

Margot Wallström
Former Vice President of the European Commission

 

Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega
Spanish First Vice President of the Government

 

Lt. Gen. David Leakey Director General of the EU Military Staff

 

Jamie Shea
Director for Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General of NATO

 

Recep Tayyip Erdogan 
Prime Minister of Turkey

 

Benita
Ferrero-Waldner
Former European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy

 

Zhe Song
Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the EU

 

Antonios Chatzidakis
General Manager, NAMSA, NATO

 

Admiral James Stavridis
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

 

Ana Maria Gomes
MEP and Vice Chairwoman, Committee on Security & Defence, European Parliament

 

General Stéphane Abrial
NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
(Jam Participant)

 

Carl Bildt
Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
(Jam Participant)

 

Marc Perrin de Brichambaut
Secretary General, OSCE
(Jam Participants)

 

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Director of Policy Planning, United States Department of State
(Jam Participants)

 

Geoffrey Van Orden
MEP, SubCommittee on Security and Defence, European Parliament

 

Kai Eide
UN Special Representative to Afghanistan, UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
(Jam Participant)

 

Vladimir Chizhov
Ambassador, Mission of the Russian Federation to the EU

 

Gen. Håkan Syrén
Chairman of European Military Committee (EUMC)
(Jam Participant)

 

François Gayet
Secretary General of the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD)

 

Dmitry Rogozin
Ambassador, Mission of the Russian Federation to NATO

 

Alyson Bailes
Visiting Professor, University of Iceland

 

Peter Weilemann
European Office Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

 

Stefanie Babst
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO

 

Jean-François Bureau
Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO

 

Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry
Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

 

Admiral Giampaolo di Paola
Chairman of the Military Committee, NATO

 

Commander Snowy Lintern
Liaison Officer of the EU Naval Force in Somalia

 

Shirin Ebadi
2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

  
SDA Co-Presidents

     

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