INVITATION: Security in Europe from a Visegrád viewpoint: strengthening fundamentals, but rethinking perspectives?

In cooperation with Centre for European Policy Studies and European Policy Institutes Network we organise on December 9 an international conference in the framework of the Think Visegrad in Brussels project.

In cooperation with Centre for European Policy Studies and European Policy Institutes Network, we cordially invite you to the international conference in the framework of the Think Visegrad in Brussels project Security in Europe from a Visegrád viewpoint: strengthening fundamentals, but rethinking perspectives?

The conference will take place on Wednesday, 9 December from 9:30 to 13:00 CET at the CEPS Conference room (Place du Congrès 1 - 1000 Brussels).

Confirmed speakers:

• Steven Blockmans, Senior Research Fellow and Head of EU FP Unit, CEPS
• Amb. David Konecký, Permanent Representative to the PSC, Czech Republic 
• Botond Feledy, Senior Fellow, Center for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy
• Tereza Novotná, Senior Fellow, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy
• Nicu Popescu, Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies (TBC) 
• Tomasz Żornaczuk, Head of Central Europe Programme, Polish Institute of International Affairs
• Tomáš A. Nagy, Research Fellow, GLOBSEC Policy Institute

Visegrád Four (V4) leaders have often described security issues as those on which substantial progress could make the EU seem more concrete for its citizens. Faced with a variety of challenges, ranging from the spill over effects of instability in the Middle East, which have in part triggered the migration crisis and sparked tensions between Central European capitals and the EU, to the troubling resurgence of Russia and its hybrid warfare, Central Europe now finds itself at a ‘crossroads of crisis’ that demands far greater reassurance for its sceptical populations.

You can register HERE and find the event on Facebook.

The programme of the conference is available through the PDF button on the right.

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Tereza Novotná
Senior Associate Research Fellow

Expertise: EU foreign policy, North and South Korea and NE Asia; European External Action Service, EU Delegations; transatlantic relations and trade; EU enlargement and EU institutions; Germany (foreign and domestic politics, particularly in the Eastern parts of Germany).