21st Foreign Policy Conference - Closed Expert Session

The EU has been created to overcome old-fashioned geopolitics, nationalism and narrow national interests. It has long been seen as the first building bloc of a new world order in which multilateralism and win-win-approaches would prevail over power politics. Now it seems that power politics is back everywhere. In reaction, many in Europe are calling for a „Geo-Economic Commission“ and an EU that can operate in a way similar to a great power.

Is there a danger that by transforming the EU it will lose its "soul" and its identity based on openness, multilateralism, willingness to compromise? How can the EU navigate through a far more competitive world, and be a respected global player, and yet remain committed to its fundamental values?

The 21st Foreign Policy Conference of the Heinrich Böll Foundation will examine some of these questions more closely, especially in the fields of

• Common Security and Defense Policy,
• European Digital Policy, and
• Geo-economics

Please note that this event will take place under the Chatham House Rule.

And event with (among others):

Ellen Ueberschär, President, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Berlin
Jörg Forbrig, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Berlin
Viola von Cramon, Member of European Parliament, Brussels
Wojciech Konończuk, Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw
Yauheni Preiherman, Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations, Minsk
Wolfram Lacher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
Elham Saudi, Lawyers for Justice in Libya, London
Florence Gaub, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris
Omid Nouripour, Member of German Bundestag, Green Party, Berlin
Tyson Barker, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
Zora Siebert, Heinrich Boell Foundation, EU Office, Brussels
Janka Oertel, European Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
Jacob Kirkegaard, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Brussels
Jürgen Trittin, Member of German Bundestag, Green Party, Berlin
Clara Portela, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris
Franziska Brantner, Member of German Bundestag, Green Party, Berlin

This is the Expert Conference Day of the 21st Foreign Policy Conference 2021.

To register for the public events, please click here:

• 21st Foreign Policy Conference Day 1 (14 January 2021)
• 21st Foreign Policy Conference Day 2 (21 January 2021)
• 21st Foreign Policy Conference Day 3 (28 Januar 2021)

We look forward to seeing you!

Foreign Policy Division of the Heinrich Boell Foundation

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