Europe's Defence in Debate

Pawel ZERKA, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Vence

Julia SOLDATIUK-WESTERVELD, Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute, The Hague*
Witold RODKIEWICZ, Senior Fellow, Russian Department, Centre for Eastern Stud-ies, Warsaw

Dirck ACKERMANN, Protestant Chaplaincy for the Bundeswehr and Co-Author of the Ethics Memorandum of the Evangelical Church in Germany (issued Nov 2025), Berlin

Lorenzo CONTI, Senior Policy Officer, European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO), Brussels
Simone WISOTZKI, Project Leader at the Research Department International Security, and Board Member at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Frankfurt

Andrea ELLNER, Senior Lecturer in Civil-Military Relations & Ethics, Department of Defence Studies, Kings College, London
Vassilis NEDOS, Diplomatic and Defense Editor, Kathimerini Newspaper, Athens
Julia WEIGELT, Journalist, Expert for Security Policy, Co-Host of the NDR Podcast “Streitkräfte & Strategien“, Hamburg

Jacopo BARIGAZZI, Senior Defense Correspondent at POLITICO Europe, Brussels
Tobias CREMER, MdEP (Social Democrats), Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Security and Defence, European Parliament, Brussels
Marcin TERLIKOWSKI, Head of Research Office, Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Warsaw

Reinhard BINGENER & Markus WEHNER (Journalists at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and authors of “Der stille Krieg“ (Beck 2025), Frankfurt/Hannover

*invited

Oliver CUSWORTH, Senior Policy Officer, EIB Security and Defence Office, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Ester SABATINO, Research Fellow for Defence and Military Analysis, Berlin Office, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Berlin*

Tobias FELLA, Senior Researcher at the Berlin office of the Institute for Peace Re-search and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), Berlin
Michael KNIEPEN, Head of Division, Strategy & Integrated Security, German Minis-try of Defence, Berlin
Roderich PARKES, Researcher, NATO Defence College, Rom

Tiia-Triin TRUUSA, Dean of the Baltic Defence College, Tartu*
Wolf-Jürgen STAHL, Major General and President of the Federal Academy for Secu-rity Policy, Berlin

*invited