The European Leadership Network regularly hosts and participates in timely, policy-relevant events. These range from private seminars with policymakers to larger conferences to inform and shape policy.
As part of the FIIA-led research project, ‘New challenges for strategic deterrence in the 21st century’, part of the implementation of the Finish Government Plan for Analysis, Assessment and Research for 2018, Sir Adam Thomson speaks to an audience on nuclear arms control.
On 18th March 2019, ELN Policy Fellow Dr Katarzyna Kubiak took part in a closed-door meeting of the Security and Defense Policy Working Group of the German Social Democratic Party in Berlin. Katarzyna briefed German MPs on the INF Treaty.
ELN Director Sir Adam Thomson and Policy Fellow Dr Katarzyna Kubiak participated in a media press event launching a new ELN-RIAC report Towards a More Stable NATO-Russia Relationship (in Englishand Russian)
On 11 March 2019, ELN Policy Fellow Alice Billon-Galland headed to Washington DC to attend the Carnegie Endowment’s workshop on “European Defence Cooperation in a New Transatlantic Context.”
The ELN partnered with the Federation of German Industries (BDI) to host a high-level roundtable on European defence at the 2019 Munich Security Conference.
UK officials, foreign diplomats and British and international experts attend London-based ELN-RIAC report launch on improving NATO-Russia relations.
On 25 January Alice Billon-Galland spoke at the “European Strategic Autonomy: Going it Alone?” panel at the 2019 Clingendael State of the Union conference in The Hague.
On January 30, the ELN convened a breakfast meeting on energy security. The discussion was chaired by Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, former NATO Secretary General, with remarks from Renatas Norkus, Lithuanian Ambassador to the UK, and Brian Wilson, former Energy Minister.
A summary of the Contact Group’s fifth meeting.