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After the recent ESDP review, what should we expect of the NATO summit?
Session I - 12:00-13:30
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
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
Robert Cooper, Director General for External and Politico-Military Affairs at the General Secretariat of the
Council of the European Union
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
SDA Members’ Lunch - 13:30-14:30
Are security strategies a growing embarassment to policymakers?
Session II - 14:30-16:00
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 clear-cut 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