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Event | 24 July 2019

Julia Berghofer at EISS Conference in Paris

Defence EU NATO Nuclear Weapons YGLN

ELN Policy Fellow & YGLN Vice-chair Julia Berghofer participated in the annual EISS Conference 2019 in Paris from 27 to 28 June at Science Po.

The organizers invited a multidisciplinary and geographically diverse group of scholars and practitioners to discuss Europe’s most pressing security matters, including counter-terrorism, climate change, military innovation, and the future of transatlantic security.

Julia spoke about a “German View on a European Deterrent: Post-Cold War, and Prospects” during a panel on “History and Prospects for a European Deterrent”. The full programme is available here.

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