Centre for Liberal Strategies Bruno Kreisky Forum Department for Security Policy Sofia, Bulgaria for International Dialogue Austrian Ministry for Defense www.cls-sofia.org www.kreisky-forum.org

Closed Round Table Discussion

Europe at Risk New Players in the European Union

December 5-6, 2019 Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna

List of participants

Ana Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain and former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group Andreas Schieder, Member of the , Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Anna Ganeva, Executive Director, Centre for Liberal Strategies Clément Beaune, Adviser Europe and G20, Office of the President of the Republic of France Dafina Isheva-Göller, European Commission Representation in Austria Daniel Smilov, Programme Director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies Dobrinka Dimova, Head of Communication, European Commission Representation in Austria Eva Maydell, Member of the European Parliament representing the European People's Party Group Federico Fubini, Editor-at-large with Corriere della Sera François Heisbourg, Senior Advisor for Europe, International Institute for Strategic Studies; Special Advisor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique Franz Fischler, President, European Forum Alpbach; President, Institute for Advanced Studies; former EU Commissioner for Agriculture Georgy Ganev, Programme Director, Centre for Liberal Strategies Gertraud Auer Borea d’Olmo, Secretary General, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue

Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, Secretary General of the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe, former Ambassador of the European Union to China and Mongolia Hugo Brady, Member of Cabinet and Speechwriter to the President of the European Council till December 2019 Ivan Krastev, Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Permanent Fellow, IWM Jakub Wisniewski, Vice President & Director of the Globsec Policy Institute Jan Joel Andersson, Policy Officer, Strategy and Policy Unit at European Defence Agency Johann Frank, GM, Defence Policy Director, Federal Ministry of Defence, Austria Joris Van Bladel, Associate Fellow at the Royal Military academy in Brussels and at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy Katarina Jurišova, Advisor to the State Secretary of Defence, Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Kristof Bender, European Stability Initiative Malgorzata Bonikowska, President, Centre for International Relations, Warsaw, Poland Marta Szucs, Defence Policy Department, Ministry of Defence of Hungary Michal Simecka , Member of the European Parliament, Group, Vice-Chairman of the political party Progressive Slovakia Nikolaus Weissel, M.A.I.S., Ministry of the Interior, Section I – Presidium Paul Schmidt, Secretary General, Austrian Society for European Policy Piotr Buras, Director of the Warsaw office of the European Council on Foreign Relations Ralf Beste, Ambassador of Germany to Vienna Rudolf Stedry, Deputy Defence Policy Director, Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic Ruzha Smilova, Program Director, Centre for Liberal Strategies Thomas Mayr-Harting Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia in the European External Action Service (November 2015 –August 2019) Tomas Nagy, Advisor to the State Secretary of Defence, Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Ulrike Guérot, Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab; Krems Professor for European Policy and the Study of Democracy, Danube University Wolfgang Braumandl-Dujardin, Defense Policy Division, Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence Zoltan Martinusz, Director, DG Foreign Affairs, Enlargement and Civil Protection Directorate Trade, Development, FAC Support, General Secretariat, Council of the European Union