NEW CONTOURS OF EUROPEAN SECURITY

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Proceedings of the March 25, 2025 Roundtable and thematic publications of the Institute for Global Politics

Under the general editorship of O. Bereziuk – Kyiv: Institute for Global Politics, 2025. 100 p.

The roundtable themed “New Contours of European Security” was held at Ukrinform at the initiative of the Institute for Global Politics. The agenda included topical issues, in particular, the role of Europe in the modern democratic world and the further political leadership of the United States of America as a result of the White House’s new approaches to fulfilling its previously undertaken leadership responsibilities. The participants also discussed the threats posed by Russia to the democratic world, ways to ensure Ukraine’s security during the Russian-Ukrainian war, Ukraine’s role in establishing a European security system, approaches to assessing the fighting in the East of Ukraine, the ideological basis of information wars, environmental issues, the role of international peacekeepers in preventing hostilities, etc.

 

Well-known experts, representatives of both Ukrainian communities and those peoples who are currently enslaved by Russia and seek to get out from under its rule, were invited to participate in the roundtable. The recorded content of the speeches of those present at the roundtable, as well as those who joined the conversation via broadcast, is offered for review in this collection. The participants’, which were made in several languages convenient for them, are presented in Ukrainian.

Photos by Ukrinform and Volodymyr Raievskyi.

 

CONTENTS

Part 1. Materials of the Roundtable Discussion of March 25, 2025

  • Oleh Bereziuk. Opening speech.
  • Yehor Cherniev. As long as the Russian Federation exists, the threat from the Russian Federation will exist.
  • Mahomed Toriyev. The Russian state is much weaker on the inside than on the outside.
  • Olivier Védrine. Europe is the only continent where one can talk about democracy. And Ukraine is the first country that is really fighting for it on the battlefield.
  • Mykhailo Melnykov. We need to use the experience gained during peacekeeping missions.
  • Anica Djamić. We have to talk about what actually happened and is happening.
  • Željko Granatir. Europe has no choice but to unite within Europe.
  • Taras Zahorodniy. Our security is first of all guaranteed exclusively by our weapons, and security guarantees are given only to those countries that are strong.
  • Vadym Skibitskyi. The role of our state in understanding and new approaches to the organization of the European security system is invaluable.
  • Serhii Bulba. Russia is consistently destroying everything Belarusian with Lukashenko’s hands.
  • Pavlo Zhovnirenko. The new structure of European security should not be exclusively European.
  • Serhii Chernov. We need to change the approach to assessing the war.
  • Serhii Pasichnyk. The basis of our security is our Armed Forces, which have modern weapons.
  • Oleksandr Prytula. It is very important that the information war be based on our ideology.
  • Yurii Andriychuk. Environmental security should become a strategic component of European security.
  • Father Ivan Hunia. Ideological issues should be actively spread, especially among veterans.
  • Valeriy Yuzba. We won this war back in 2022. But we can lose it quite significantly in 2025.
  • Valdes Bratkevych. My Ukrainization is happening faster than the Ukrainization of those people who found themselves in the West of Ukraine or those who now live in Lithuania.
  • Ilya Bozhko. Today, information weapons are sometimes more terrible than nuclear weapons.
  • Oleh Bereziuk. Closing speech.

 

Part 2. Publications of the Institute for Global Politics

  • Oleh Bereziuk. Munich Security Conference 2025 (16.02.2025).
  • Oleh Bereziuk. There Are No Friends and Enemies in Politics, There Are Only Interests (20.02.2025).
  • Oleh Bereziuk. Is the United States of America Disappearing from History? (22.02.2025)
  • Oleh Bereziuk. European NATO (22.02. 2025).
  • Yurii Mykhailenko. New Contours of European Security (25.03.2025).
  • Yurii Ilchenko. Prospects for European Security. Relying on Own Strength (30.03.2025).
  • Yurii Mykhaylenko. “Coalition of the Willing” for Ukraine. Security Guarantees Without NATO Membership (02.04.2025).

 

From Oleh Bereziuk’s opening speech

“…In the fourth year of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the United States of America, for whose help as of a global leader of the democratic world, we hoped, has now begun to abandon such leadership. Europe, in particular, is left to face challenges and threats from Russia on its own.

This situation requires urgent measures. What kind of measures? To answer this and other questions, we have proposed today to gather a wide audience, which includes representatives of the communities that have suffered and are suffering the most from Russia’s armed aggression…”

 

From Oleh Bereziuk’s closing speech

“…A new European defense alliance is needed in the current situation. We are ready to apply our knowledge and efforts to contribute to this…”.

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