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12:00-13:30 After the recent ESDP review, what should we expect of the NATO summit?
The “review” by Javier Solana of his 2003 European Security Strategy (ESS) endorsed by EU leaders last December was, most analysts seemed to agree, far from radical. It underlined Europe’s growing role as a force for global stability and drew attention to new security-related challenges like climate change, access to energy, cyber attacks and piracy on the high seas. But it skated lightly over such sensitive issues as EU-NATO relations other than to say their strategic partnership must be deepened. Can we now expect NATO to use its 60th anniversary summit in April to draw a more detailed map of the West’s security interests and commitments? With its ISAF mission in Afghanistan failing to deliver either security or reconstruction, is a restatement of NATO’s security doctrine overdue?
Co-Moderators: Giles Merritt, Director of the Security & Defence Agenda, and Peter R. Weilemann, Director of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung's Brussels Office.
Jamie Shea, Director for Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO.
Alvaro de Vasconcelos, Director of the EU Institute for Strategic Studies (EU-ISS)
Thomas Silberhorn MP, Spokesman of the CSU Parliamentary Group for European and Foreign Affairs in the German Bundestag
Geoffrey Van Orden, Member of the European Parliament
13:30-14:30 SDA Members' Lunch
14:30-16:00 Are security strategies a growing embarrassment to policymakers?
When the European Security Strategy was set forth five years ago it marked an important step in the EU’s development. In the absence of clearcut treaty commitments by member states to the Union’s defence and security activities, the ESS provided a much-needed political basis for the drive to improve its defence industries and extend its military outreach. And although NATO has a very firm treaty base, of course, it was fashioned for Cold War challenges rather than 21st Century ones. With transatlantic and NATO-EU relations increasingly complex and volatile, are such security doctrines more a potential source of trouble than a foreign policy bedrock? How strong a case is there for radical and complementary reviews of both the ESS and NATO doctrines?
Horst Teltschik, Former Security Adviser to Helmut Kohl, former Chairman of the Munich Security Conference
Christine Roger, Ambassador, Permanent Representation of France to the EU
Ana Gomes, Member of the European Parliament
Karel Kovanda, Deputy Director General, CFSP, Multilateral Relations and North America, East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, EEA, EFTA at the European Commission
Rob de Wijk, Director, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies |