Speakers
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Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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Head of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General at NATO
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Director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs
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Associate Professor at Royal Danish Defence College
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Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee at the Parliament (Seimas) of the Republic of Lithuania
Moderator
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Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Defence of Estonia
What opportunities and challenges do Finland’s accession and Sweden’s likely accession bring to the Alliance? How will the security environment in the wider north change? How should NATO treat this now very coherent region and how might Russia adjust its military posture in response? What are the implications of this shift for Allies in the wider Baltic region such as Poland and Germany? What are the implications for Nordic-Baltic defence cooperation?
“Everything can change all of a sudden, and for no reason at all!”
Tove Jansson, Moominpappa at Sea (1965)