Grateful for very enriching exchange on how to boost European resilience against desinformation and destabilisation. Dovilė Šakalienė Margarita Seselgyte

The Globalist: As Belarus conducts military drills along its borders with Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland, Margarita Seselgyte speaks to Georgina Godwin about the EU leaders’ meeting in Vilnius to discuss Baltic Nato defence bit.ly/3PLOOGW

The Globalist: The Globalist: Anne-Elisabeth Moutet 🇫🇷🇺🇦 on Emmanuel Macron hosting Antony Blinken in Paris, Margarita Seselgyte on EU leaders in Vilnius, Mary Fitzgerald looks at Senegal’s youngest president and we explore Heath Ceramics. Plus: Guy De Launey on the first AI politician bit.ly/3VINM27

Happening right now: Our Research Fellow Jacob Ross joins Gaspard Schnitzler, Hanna Ojanen & Margarita Seselgyte in a panel named “Towards a common European strategic culture?” at Paris Defence and Security Forum #PDSF2024 , giving an insight into 🇩🇪 strategic culture.

With top female professionals, we took another step from #EmpoweringWomen to #WomenInPower in diplomacy, academia, business, and politics, starting the week of International Women's Day, with the discussion 'Invest in women: Accelerate progress' inspired by #UN Women's proposals.

Together with ZMSBw, Centre for International Security - Hertie School hosted a workshop with researchers from various parts of Europe to discuss the different responses to Russia's war on Ukraine. Steve Saideman has written a nice summary: saideman.blogspot.com/2024/03/zeiten… #Zeitenwende

It was such a treat to spend these super intense 24 hours discussing the security of Europe from so many different perspectives with all these sharp minds! Thank you all!
Centre for International Security - Hertie School Team Europe Direct Polska ENGAGE

Great, moderate realist speech by Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen and Rants" Masala on scenarios for #Europe security architecture at Hertie School :
Russia wins war in #Ukraine ?
#Trump wins elections?
#EU elections results?
Amyway, need to contain #Russia neoimperial ambitions.
Hanna Ojanen Christian Mölling Claudia Major

In the article 'Ukraine's NATO Membership Quest: a Closing Window of Opportunity?', which can be found in the broader EESC analytical study 'Navigating Geostrategic Challenges: A Comprehensive Analysis of NATO's Evolving Landscape', Margarita Seselgyte states:

💭| The relatively recent…

Dignified and joyous graduation ceremony at #Vilnius University. What an honour to address promising & smart graduates of political science! Truly enjoyed warm welcome and hospitality of Prorector Vasiliauskas and Prof. Margarita Seselgyte. Congrats & hope to be back soon at Vilnius University.

China is looking at the war in Ukraine as a laboratory and taking lessons, says Margarita Seselgyte.

Beijing is studying how Ukraine is reacting, what weapon systems are used, and also how the West is reacting.

Watch more: ➡️ bit.ly/3RHs6zY

🗓️ Jan. 10 | 8:00 am ET

Scowcroft Center Indo-Pacific Security Initiative hosts a Cross-Strait Seminar on Central & Eastern European relations with Taiwan, featuring Jakub Janda 楊雅嚳, Margarita Seselgyte, @indsrtw Jyun-yi Lee, and Markus Garlauskas as moderator.

✍️ Register:
bit.ly/3RHs6zY

🗓️ Jan. 10 | 8:00 am ET

Join Scowcroft Center Indo-Pacific Security Initiative for a Cross-Strait Seminar on Central & Eastern European relations w/ Taiwan, featuring Jakub Janda 楊雅嚳, Margarita Seselgyte, @indsrtw Jyun-yi Lee, and Markus Garlauskas as moderator.

✍️ Register:
bit.ly/3RHs6zY

In freezing #Vilnius today moderating a panel & discussing 🇪🇺 enlargement & institutional reforms at the annual Lithuania MFA | #StandWithUkraine conference on EU affairs, bringing 120 🇱🇹 MPs, EUMS ambassadors, national advisers, diplomats, officials, business representatives & political scientists.

When 🇪🇪 prof. Maria Mälksoo kicks off 🇱🇹 Vilnius University VU TSPMI | IIRPS VU #StandWithUkraine #AnnualConference and references 🇱🇻 academic Toms Rostoks ('Schrödinger's NATO') in lecture on RITUAL DETERRENCE, I'm feeling the #Baltic . Thanks prof. Margarita Seselgyte for pulling it all together.

🔷 The #AnnualConference at #VUTSPMI begins!

📢 We are starting with the opening address by the director of the Institute Prof. Margarita Seselgyte.

Stay tuned for updates 🔥

A very good & comprehensive overview of developments & outlook for defence industry in #NATO countries from #Turkey to #UK & across #EU members. Glad to have contributed on #Italy to the DGAP Christian Mölling led study:
dgap.org/en/research/pu…
Dr. Can Kasapoglu Daniel Fiott ARES Group

Seminar on Media Freedom and Belarus in Vilnius. Strong and inspiring words by Prof Šešelgytė and Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya at opening. Keep on fighting for democracies. Efforts of Belarusian journalists to deliver truth not in vain, will bring us closer to victory, to democracy.

Christian Mölling Sören Hellmonds Sofia Security Forum Torben Schütz Camille Grand Eliamep Csiki Varga Tamas alessandro lima Margarita Seselgyte Marcin Terlikowski GlobalFocus Center Real Instituto Elcano RUSI We thank all experts for their contributions. You can read the whole #EDINA II report on our website! 📘👇 /end

on.dgap.org/4789Yp4

Thanks to Michael Scharfschwerdt for hosting yesterdays's workshop on EU-enlargement and reform as input to #FutureEU
Background reading:
👉shorturl.at/hsTY1
👉big-europe.eu
ECFR #PowerAudit coming up (📷@Photothek.de)