The Annual Review Conference on the Foreign and European Policy of the Slovak Republic is organized by the Slovak Society Foreign Policy Association (SFPA), provides a clear assessment of Slovakia’s direction in the EU and the world and offers space for a substantive debate on current trends, challenges and priorities.
The event is intended for everyone who is interested in where the country is heading: from students, journalists and practitioners to the professional community and the wider public who want to understand the context.
The panel topics will focus on the balance of Slovak foreign and European policy in 2025, the future of Slovakia in the EU and NATO, current European and security challenges and the direction of Slovak foreign policy in the future. The program will also be supplemented by four foreign experts who will bring an “outside” perspective and a comparison of experiences and trends in the EU and NATO.
If you want to help ensure that the conference takes place in the planned scope and quality, we would be happy to support our campaign on the StratLab portal. We will use the contributions mainly for the technical and organizational organization of the event. Thank you.
PROGRAM
Opening remarks
Juraj Stern, Chairman of the SFPA Board of Directors
PANEL I Slovak Foreign and European Policy in 2025
Chair
Pavol Demeš, member of the Board of Directors, Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Panelists:
Miriam Lexmann, member of the EP, EPP
Katarína Roth Neveďalová, member of the EP
Lucia Yar, member of the EP, Renew Europe
Ján Kubiš, foreign affairs and international politics advisor to the President of the SR
PANEL II Joint Future in the EU and NATO
Chair:
Andrej Matišák, journalist,Pravda daily
Panelists:
Piotr Szymanski, Senior Fellow, Security and Defense Department, OSW
Susan Stewart, senior fellow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Richard G Whitman , professor Director of Research, School of Economics, Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
Martin Svárovský, foreign policy analyst, SvarovskyTube
PANEL III Current European and Security Policy Challenges
Chair:
Ivan Štulajter, freelance journalist
Panelists:
Zuzana Múčka, analyst, Council for Budget Responsibility
Oľga Gyárfášová, Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University
Miroslav Wlachovský, Distinguished Fellow, Globsec
Matej Šimalčík, director, CEIAS
PANEL IV What foreign policy for Slovakia
Chair:
Magda Vášáryová, Member of the Board of Directors, Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Panelisti:
Jana Kobzová, senior policy fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Imrich Marton, researcher, Dpt of Political Science Faculty of Arts, Comenius University
Alexander Duleba, analyst, Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Juraj Marušiak, director, Institute of Political Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Concluding remarks
Tomáš Strážay, director, Slovak Foreign Policy Association
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