GLOBSEC 2022 Bratislava Forum

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GLOBSEC 2022 – Opening / The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, addressing the Bratislava Forum: ‘Countering Russia: Ukraine Standing Tall for the West’

GLOBSEC 2022 – Opening / The President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the Bratislava Forum: ‘Through Hardship to the Stars: Europe and the Reconstruction of Ukraine’

GLOBSEC 2022 – Welcome to Bratislava: The Polish Delegation to GLOBSEC, part I – Senator Bogdan Klich (Head of Delegation), Anna Szymańska-Klich (ISS Kraków), Thomas Behrens (KAS Poland), from right to left)

GLOBSEC 2022 – SIDE-MEETING: 'Future Security & Defence Council Executive Lunch' (with Senator Bogdan Klich, in the center)

GLOBSEC 2022 – Panel: ‘Fallen Villain: A Putin’s Free Russia’ (with Former President of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, and Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Carl Bildt)

GLOBSEC 2022 – The Polish Delegation to GLOBSEC, part II – Bartłomiej Kot (Warsaw Security Forum, in the center)

GLOBSEC 2022 – SIDE-EVENT: 'Great Power dynamics in Southeast Asia: China’s Soft Power Projection in ASEAN and Lessons for Europe’ (with Céline Agathe (KAS Thailand), in the center)

GLOBSEC 2022 – networking I, with Céline Agathe (KAS Thailand), Claudia Crawford (KAS Vienna), Heinrich Kreft (Andrassy University Budapest)

GLOBSEC 2022 – Panel: ‘Burning the Breadbasket: Wider Impact of Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine’ (with the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Eduard Heger, and the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, Karl Nehammer)

GLOBSEC 2022 – The Polish Delegation to GLOBSEC, part III – SIDE-TALK with Paweł Kowal (Sejm RP, in the center)

GLOBSEC 2022 – Panel: ‘An Open Mind: Overcoming Demographic Challenges’ (with Federico Fubini (Corriere della Sera), Tim Judah (The Economist), Alida Vračić (Populari), Ivan Krastev (The Centre for Liberal Strategies), from right to left)

GLOBSEC 2022 – Global Young Leaders Forum / GYLF-Chat: ‘Woman Leading Democracies Leading the Way?’

GLOBSEC 2022 – networking II, at the SIDE-EVENT: ‘A Missing Spark: Developing EU’s Potential in Tech’, with Eva Maydell (MEP and Initiator of Regulation 4 Innovation) and Thomas Behrens (KAS Poland)

GLOBSEC 2022 – SIDE-EVENT: 'What’s Next for Europe?: From the Conference on the Future of Europe to a New Reality' (with Bogdan Klich (Senate RP), Milena Hrdinková (Former State Secretary of European Affairs of the Czech Republic), Katarina Cséfalvayová (Institute for Central Europe) and Roland Freudenstein (GLOBSEC), from right to left)

GLOBSEC 2022 – Panel: ‘Struggles on the Frontline: Can Democracies Stop Tyranny?’ (with Aya Chebbi (Former African Union Youth Envoy and Founder and Chair of Nala Feminist Collective), Michael Žantovsky (Václav Havel Library), Maria Mezentseva (Member of Parliament of Ukraine and Head of Ukrainian Delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly), Damon Wilson (National Endowment for Democracy), Natalia Arno (Free Russia Foundation) and Robin Shepherd (Halifax International Security Forum), from right to left)

GLOBSEC 2022 – networking III, with Anna Szymańska-Klich (ISS Kraków) and Damon Wilson (National Endowment for Democracy)

GLOBSEC 2022 – Farewell among KAS staff members (Michal Petrik, Zarife Gagica, Bruno Hamm-Pütt, Thomas Behrens, from right to left)

At the 17th edition of GLOBSEC, taking place at the Grand Hotel River Park in Bratislava, Slovakia, from 2 – 4 June 2022, high-ranking representatives from politics, business and science from 80 countries across the world will discuss on global security, international cooperation and actions to strengthen Central Eastern Europe.

‘GLOBSEC 2022 Bratislava Forum’ will focus on three key areas to mobilize:

• support for Ukraine and broader European neighbourhood
• resources of the west to strengthen resilience at home
• global coalitions to defend democracy

The Foreign Office of KAS in Poland will send a Polish delegation to the Forum, to participate in in-depth discussions and bilateral side talks to support political partners and make mutual relations in CEE stronger.

Members of the Polish Delegation at GLOBSEC 2022 are:

• Bogdan Klich  (Head of Delegation), Senate of the Republic of Poland, Senator of the Republic of Poland (since 2011) / Koalicja Obywatelska
• Anna Szymańska-Klich, Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS) in Kraków, President of the Board of ISS
• Paweł Kowal, Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Member of the Sejm (since 2007) / Koalicja Obywatelska
• Bartlomiej Kot, Warsaw Security Forum, Program Director
• Thomas Behrens, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Poland, Project Coordinator

Program

 

Members of the delegation will participate in the following conference sessions, among others:

 

- SIDE-MEETING: 'Future Security & Defence Council Executive Lunch'

02 June 2022, 13:30-15:00, Executive Living room

Speaker line-up:

• Curtis Scaparrotti, The Cohen Group, Senior Counselor
• Bogdan Klich, Foreign and European Union Affairs Committee; Chairman

- SIDE-EVENT: 'What’s Next for Europe?: From the Conference on the Future of Europe to a New Reality'

June 2022, 17:30-19:00, Ferdinand meeting room 1&2

Speaker line-up:

• Katarina Cséfalvayová; Director; Institute for Central Europe
• Milena Hrdinková; Former State Secretary of European Affairs of the Czech Republic
• Roland Freudenstein; Vice President and Head of GLOBSEC Brussels, Belgium
• Bogdan Klich; Chairman; Foreign and European Union Affairs Committee; Senate; Poland

Led by: Sebastian Schaeffer; Managing Director; Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM)

 

Please find the AGENDA of the GLOBSEC 2022 Bratislava Forum here:

https://forum2022.globsec.org/agenda/

See further information on 'GLOBSEC 2022 Bratislava Forum' on the official website: 

https://forum2022.globsec.org/