The Russian offensive against Ukraine is no isolated event, but a symptom of a fundamental conflict for the European security architecture and the future international order. The causes and impacts of the war, but also the consequences for the organisation of the European security order will be topics of our international conference.
8:30 – 9:00 | Registration & Coffee
9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome & Introduction
Marieluise Beck & Ralf Fücks, Center for Liberal Modernity
09:10 – 9:30 | Opening Remarks
Annalena Baerbock, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany (tbc)
Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (online, tbc)
9:30 – 11:00 | Panel 1: Lessons Learned? The War as the Moment of Truth for Europe
Peter Wagner, Head of Service for Foreign Policy Instruments, European Commission (tbc)
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Political Analyst (tbc)
Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University & Permanent Fellow at the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences (tbc)
Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine (tbc)
Anna Lührmann, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office (tbc)
Moderation: Ralf Fücks, Center for Liberal Modernity
11:00 – 12:00 | Panel 2: Next Steps in EU Accession for Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
Anton Hofreiter, Chairman of the EU Affairs Committee at the German Bundestag, Alliance 90/The Greens
Gunther Krichbaum, Member of the EU Affairs Committee at the German Bundestag and European Policy Spokesman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group
Thomas Hacker, Member of the EU Affairs Committee at the German Bundestag and European Policy Spokesman, FDP Parliamentary Group
Christian Petry, Member of the EU Affairs Committee at the German Bundestag and European Policy Spokesman, SPD Parliamentary Group
Moderation: Marieluise Beck, Center for Liberal Modernity
12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00 | Panel 3: What Outcome of the War? Are We Doing Enough for Ukraine to Win?
Claudia Major, Head of the International Security Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) (tbc)
Ben Hodges, Lieutenant General (Retired), Former Commanding General of US Army Europe, Senior Advisor to Human Rights First (tbc)
Justyna Gotkowska, Deputy Director, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW, Poland) (tbc)
Wolfgang Schmidt, Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks (tbc)
Moderation: Nico Lange, Senior Fellow, Zeitenwende-Initiative at the Munich Security Conference (tbc)
15:00 – 16:30 | Parallel Discussion Forums
15:00 16:30 | Forum 1a: Accountability for War Crimes: International Rule-Based Order on Test
Claus Kreß, Director of the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Cologne & Special Adviser, International Criminal Court (tbc)
Anton Korynevych, Ambassador at-Large of Ukraine (tbc)
Nils Behrndt, Deputy Director-General at DG JUST, European Commission (tbc)
Tania Freiin von Uslar-Gleichen, Plenipotentiary on the issues of General and Special International Law, German Federal Foreign Office (tbc)
Moderation: Marieluise Beck, Center for Liberal Modernity
15:00 – 16:30 | Forum 1b: Reconstruction and Energy Security
Oleksandra Azarkhina, Deputy Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine (tbc)
Maria Repko, Deputy Executive Director, Center for Economic Strategy (tbc)
Torsten Wöllert, Minister Counsellor – Energy to the EU Delegation to Ukraine, European External Action Service (EEAS) (tbc)
Jochen Flasbarth, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (tbc)
Moderation: Rebecca Harms, Senior Advisor, Center for Liberal Modernity
16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30 | Parallel Discussion Forums
17:00 – 18:30 | Forum 2a: Ukraine After the War: People-Oriented, Transparent, Well-Governed
Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine (tbc)
Olena Kondratiuk, Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian Union Batkivschyna (tbc)
Volodymyr Yermolenko, Philosopher, Essayist, Translator and President of PEN Ukraine (tbc)
Georg Milbradt, Special Envoy of the Government of Germany on Decentralisation, Good Governance and Reforms in Ukraine (tbc)
Moderation: Iryna Solonenko, Center for Liberal Modernity
17:00 – 18:30 | Forum 2b: The Impact of the Russian Aggression on Neighbouring Countries – Civil Society‘s Expectations from the EU
Dmytro Shulga, IRF, Ukraine
Ivane Chkhikvadze, OSF, Georgia
Natalia Stercul, APE, Moldova
Dirk Schübel, Special Envoy for the Eastern Partnership, European External Action Service (EEAS)
Moderation: Khatia Kikalishvili, Center for Liberal Modernity
18:30 – 20:00 | Final Panel: Rethinking Common Security – On the Future of the European Security Order
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Former NATO Secretary General (tbc)
Roderich Kiesewetter, Member of the German Bundestag and former General Staff Officer of the Bundeswehr, CDU (tbc)
Agnieszka Brugger, Member of the German Bundestag and Deputy Chairwoman of Parliamentary Group, Alliance 90/The Greens (tbc)
Pavlo Klimkin, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and co-founder of the Centre for National Resilience and Development (tbc)
Moderation: Ralf Fücks, Center for Liberal Modernity
20:00 – 20:15 | Closing Remarks
Marieluise Beck & Ralf Fücks
