Europe’s Defence in Debate

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Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

Yevhen HLIBOVYTSKY, Director of Frontier Institute and Supervisory board member at Suspilne (Ukrainian public service broadcast), Kyiv

Tuomas ISO-MARKKU, Senior Research Fellow, The European Union and Strategic Competition Program, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Helsinki

Helga KALM, Deputy Director and Head of the Foreign Policy Program, International Center for Defence and Security (ICDS), Tallinn

Martin LAMMERT, Lieutenant Colonel, Future Analysis Unit, Bundeswehr Planning Office, Berlin

Wilfried JILGE, Senior Adviser, Integrated Response Hub for Ukraine at the Stabilization

Platform and Associate Fellow of the Center for Order and Governance in Eastern

Europe, Russia, and Central Asia at the German Council on Foreign (DGAP), Berlin**

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

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

** 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 für Innovation

und Technik (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**

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

Pavlo KLIMKIN, Co-Founder, Center for National Resilience and Development and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2014-2019), Kyiv**

Louise SOUVERBIE, Head of the EU and NATO Programme, IRIS (Institut de Relations Internationales et Strategique) Paris*

Wolf-Jürgen STAHL, Major General and President of the Federal Academy for Secu-rity Policy, Berlin

* invited

** preliminarily confirmed