ABCD 2024

Europe´s Role in Strengthening Transatlantic Security: Leveraging from Institutional Collaboration

What can Europe do to contribute more to transatlantic burden-sharing? Among a variety of global security concerns, how to maintain the United States’ strong involvement in Europe? How can NATO and the EU align their strategies, legal frameworks and policy instruments to counter multitude of threats? How can they leverage their combined industrial capabilities to enhance military readiness and what specific technologies should be prioritised? In what ways can they improve resource allocation and funding mechanisms to support joint defence initiatives, and what role does the defence industry play in this process?

Speakers

Charles Fries

Deputy Secretary General for Peace, Security and Defence at European External Action Service

Guillaume Ollagnier

Director of Strategic Affairs, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation at the Foreign Affairs Ministry of France

Kusti Salm

CEO of Frankenburg Technologies

Moderator

Stuart Lau

NATO correspondent for POLITICO

Shifting Threat Perceptions

Quo Vadis NATO?