Europe's Defence in Debate

Tobias CREMER, MdEP (Social Democrats), Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Security and Defence, European Parliament, Brussels
Lesia OGRYZKO, Director of the Sahaidachnyi Security Center and visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Kyiv
Witold RODKIEWICZ, Senior Fellow, Russian Department, Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw

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

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
Moderation: Lukas MENGELKAMP, Researcher, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), 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
Moderation: Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

Reinhard BINGENER & Markus WEHNER, Journalisten, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei-tung und Autoren des Buches „Der Stille Krieg“ (Beck 2025), Erfur/Hannover

*invited
** preliminarily confirmed

Oliver CUSWORTH, Senior Policy Officer, EIB Security and Defence Office, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Simone EHRENBERG-SILIES, Head of Geo-Tech Politics Program, Institute for Innovation and Technology (iit) and Senior Consultant VDI/VDE Innovation, Berlin
Ester SABATINO, Research Fellow for Defence and Military Analysis, Berlin Office, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Berlin**
Moderation: Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

Tobias FELLA, Senior Researcher at the Berlin office of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), Berlin
Michael KNIEPEN, Head of Division, Strategy & Integrated Security, German Ministry of Defence, Berlin
Roderick PARKES, Researcher, NATO Defence College, Rom
Moderation: Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

Volodymyr DUBOVYK, Senior Fellow with the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Odessa
Pavlo KLIMKIN, Co-Founder, Center for National Resilience and Development and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2014-2019), Kyiv**
Wolf-Jürgen STAHL, Major General and President of the Federal Academy for Secu-rity Policy, Berlin

* invited
** preliminarily confirmed