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Sabine Fandrych, Executive Member of the Board of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Lars Klingbeil, Party Chairman of the SPD
What are the central guidelines for social democracy in changing times?
Moderation: Nana Brink, Journalist
Break
The Russian attack on Ukraine has brought the EU closer together. Tough sanctions packages and rapid non-bureaucratic support for the government in Kiev were implemented. But the EU's weakness in security policy became clearly visible. How can the Union learn the right lessons from this crisis? How do we strengthen the EU's ability to act and its sovereignty externally?
Keynote Christine Lambrecht, German Federal Minister of Defense
Discussion with:
Moderation: Christos Katsioulis, FES Vienna
The ecological transformation of Europe with good jobs and an innovative economy is a basis for more cohesion and common strength for Europe. Functioning welfare states, strong and well-fortified democracies and a secure cyberspace are the hallmark of Europe. How can this be made secure in an increasingly conflict-ridden world?
11:45 Keynote Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President for a European Green Deal (transformation, socially just change)
Moderation: Julia Bläsius, FES Berlin
Lunch Break
The turn of the times is not just a European phenomenon. Food speculation and rising energy prices are directly affecting the global South. But trust in European solidarity has dwindled, because in many of these countries the West stands for double standards and the one-sided pursuit of interests. How can the EU, how can Germany, forge fair alliances and initiate a new form of globalized cooperation?
These changing times are not just shifting the foreign political situation in Europe. Other regions of the world are also directly feeling the consequences of the war: speculation in food and rising energy prices are hitting the global south hard. Many countries have the feeling that they are invisible to Europe. Other actors are exploiting this vacuum to expend their own influence. Europe needs to find an answer to this and meet the interests of the global south at eye level – also so that it can secure its own strategic aims. How can the EU and Germany form fair alliances and initiate a new form of globalised coexistence that has advantages for both sides?
Keynote: Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development
Moderation: Valeska Hesse, FES Latin America
The changing times are ringing in a new, uncertain and conflicted world order in which it will be crucial for Europe to bring its confident security policy sovereignty, its established internal strengths and alliances to bear. For the European social model will need to stand firm against these conflicts. How can Europe prevent itself from becoming a plaything of great powers and instead play a part in setting the rules of the game on the basis of its own values and interests?
Martin Schulz, President Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
End of the conference
