Agenda and recordings

Sunday Saturday

Friday
June 1

Welcome note

Sven Sakkov

Keynote address

Alexander Van der Bellen

Opening session

Who Owns History?

Natalie Nougayrède , Yuri Slezkine , Marek Tamm , Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Democracy, Disinformation, History

By invitation only

Dinner hosted by President Kersti Kaljulaid

Night Owl session (Chatham House Rule)

Russia and the West: Crossroads or Dead End?

Kadri Liik , Carl Bildt , Sergey Utkin , Robert Karem , Dmitri Trenin

Russia, West
Sunday Friday

Saturday
June 2

Breakfast session (Chatham House Rule)

Eastern Partnership: Strategic Vision or Wishful Thinking?

Jan Techau , Jana Kobzová , Riina Kionka , Balázs Jarábik , Tengiz Pkhakaladze

Eastern Partnership

Breakfast session (Chatham House Rule)

When All News is “Fake”: Strategies for a Confused Age

Christian Caryl , Jakub Kalenský , Alina Polyakova , Anton Shekhovtsov

Disinformation

Breakfast session (Chatham House Rule)

Challenges from the South: Firefighting vs Strategy

Tom Nuttall , Giuseppe Perrone , Mustafa Aydin , Elisabeth Millard , Michael Köhler

Democracy, Migration, Terrorism

Breakfast session (Chatham House Rule)

European Defence: Where’s the Beef?

Barbara Kunz , Jana Puglierin , Adam Thomson , Etienne de Durand , Anna Wieslander

Defence, Europe

Panel discussion

Geography and Threat: Should NATO Mind the East/South Gap?

Constanze Stelzenmüller , José Alberto Azeredo Lopes , Jüri Luik , David Pendall , Claudia Major

Defence, Migration, NATO, Russia, Terrorism

Panel discussion

Democracy and Digital Misdeeds: Fighting Foreign Manipulation

Edward Lucas , Mark Galeotti , Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven , Andrei Soldatov , Daniel Moore

Authoritarianism, Democracy, Digitalisation, Disinformation

Optional

Tours

Panel discussion

How Great is Europe?

Ali Aslan , Jüri Ratas , Lolita Čigāne , Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff , Konrad Szymański

Brexit, European Union, Integration, Populism

Panel discussion

Thinking the Unthinkable: Why Has Leadership Failed?

Nik Gowing , Carl Bildt

Brexit, Democracy, Disinformation, Populism, Technology

Panel discussion

Eighteen Months of Trump Foreign Policy: Right Direction Wrong Track?

Susan B Glasser , Daniel Vajdich , Randy Scheunemann , Marie Mendras , Constanze Stelzenmüller

Transatlantic relations, USA

Night Owl session (Chatham House Rule)

Putin’s Grand Finale: What will Putin’s Last Term Mean for Russia?

David J. Kramer , Vladimir Kara-Murza , Alexey Levinson , Anders Åslund

Russia

Night Owl session (Chatham House Rule)

Afghanistan: Will This Time be Different?

Steven Erlanger , Ahmed Rashid , David H. Petraeus , Mariam Wardak , Olga Oliker

Afghanistan

Night Owl session (Chatham House Rule)

Brave New World: Utopia or Dystopia?

Jill Dougherty , Lucas Kello , Ulrike Franke , Tomáš Valášek , Vivian Loonela

Digitalisation, Future, Technology

Night Owl session (Chatham House Rule)

Ukraine: Proxy War of the New Cold War?

Quentin Peel , Kurt Volker , Anna Arutunyan , James Sherr , Hanna Hopko

Defence, Russia, Ukraine
Saturday Friday

Sunday
June 3

Breakfast session (Chatham House Rule)

Somewhere in the Arctic: Security Challenges in the High North

Charly Salonius-Pasternak , Pavel Baev , Robert Huebert , Caroline Kennedy-Pipe , Niklas Granholm

Arctic

Breakfast session (Chatham House Rule)

Sea-Blind and Air-Blind?: Does Baltic Defence Need Re-calibration?

Sven Sakkov , Alexander Vershbow , Christopher Harper , Jonatan Vseviov , Andrew A. Michta

Baltic states, Defence capabilities

Breakfast session (Chatham House Rule)

The Western Balkans and the EU: Compromising Values for Security?

Isabelle Lasserre , Daniel Mitov , Jelena Milić , Matti Maasikas , François Heisbourg

Balkans, European Union, Security

Breakfast session (Chatham House Rule)

Nord Stream 2: Piping Hot Politics?

Damien McGuinness , Mikhail Korchemkin , Brenda Shaffer , Jean-Arnold Vinois , Benjamin L. Schmitt

Energy

Panel discussion

China’s Game in Europe: What Rules, What Stakes?

Theresa Fallon , Maria Martin-Prat , Roland Freudenstein , Jerker Hellström , Alan Riley

China

Panel discussion

The UN: Fit for Purpose?

Kersti Kaljulaid , Sven Mikser , Espen Barth Eide , Lamberto Zannier , Nathalie Goulet

United Nations

Friday

Welcome note

Keynote address

Who Owns History?

Dinner hosted by President Kersti Kaljulaid

Russia and the West: Crossroads or Dead End?

Saturday

Eastern Partnership: Strategic Vision or Wishful Thinking?

When All News is “Fake”: Strategies for a Confused Age

Challenges from the South: Firefighting vs Strategy

European Defence: Where’s the Beef?

Geography and Threat: Should NATO Mind the East/South Gap?

Democracy and Digital Misdeeds: Fighting Foreign Manipulation

Tours

How Great is Europe?

Thinking the Unthinkable: Why Has Leadership Failed?

Eighteen Months of Trump Foreign Policy: Right Direction Wrong Track?

Putin’s Grand Finale: What will Putin’s Last Term Mean for Russia?

Afghanistan: Will This Time be Different?

Brave New World: Utopia or Dystopia?

Ukraine: Proxy War of the New Cold War?

Sunday

Somewhere in the Arctic: Security Challenges in the High North

Sea-Blind and Air-Blind?: Does Baltic Defence Need Re-calibration?

The Western Balkans and the EU: Compromising Values for Security?

Nord Stream 2: Piping Hot Politics?

China’s Game in Europe: What Rules, What Stakes?

The UN: Fit for Purpose?