Speakers
Justyna Gotkowska
Programme Coordinator, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
Edward Lucas
Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Senior Adviser at CEPA
Claudia Major
Head of the International Security Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Ana Isabel Xavier
Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defence of Portugal
Moderator
Charly Salonius-Pasternak
Leading Researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- With the vision set out in the Compass, what does the EU bring to the table?
- How realistic, politically and economically, is its promise to deliver military rapid reaction capability?
- To what extent can the EU undertake military crisis management while its Member States increasingly turn their attentions to defence?
- Do NATO and the EU have a common perception of how to deal with the threats they both recognise?
- Can they agree on a division of responsibility? Is there a role for the UK in Europe’s defence efforts?
