The dawn of multilateralism: cooperation or collaboration?

#SecuritySummit #NATO2030 #StrategicCompass

The EU Strategic Compass aims to set the instruments and strategies for the Union to counter increasing threats and challenges, protect its citizens and enhance its strategic autonomy to become a stronger global partner. EU officials have reiterated that the goal is to achieve strategic autonomy for rather than strategic autonomy from, pointing out that the EU should step up its game to avoid dependency on partners while enhancing the capacity of the alliance and becoming a stronger partner as a result. The Asia-Pacific region has also emerged as a strategic area of interest, highlighting the necessity for the EU and NATO to develop more structured and stronger relationships with partners in the region – whether together or in parallel. NATO 2030 recommends working ‘closer with other multilateral institutions and strategic partners to capitalise on each other’s strengths’ and aims to set a better framework for NATO-EU cooperation. But what are exactly are those ‘strengths’? Both initiatives highlight the importance of working with likeminded partners, but how do the EU Strategic Compass and NATO 2030 fit together?

- Will NATO and the EU’s revised strategies set a new framework for collaboration?
- Should the new transatlantic grand bargain on security be framed as an updated division of labour between NATO and the EU?
- Is NATO taking on too many new roles or producing a more effective alliance?

WITH
João Gomes Cravinho, Portuguese Minister of Defence
Tania Lațici, Co-lead of NATO2030 Young Leaders and Security and Defence expert at the European External Action Service (EEAS)
Kadi Silde, Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence
John J. Sullivan, Ambassador of the United States of America to the Russian Federation

0:00 Introduction with Mary Fitzgerald, Friends of Europe Trustee, Award-winning journalist, researcher and Consultant in Euro-Mediterranean Affairs
1:53 Kadi Silde, Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence
7:48 Mary Fitzgerald
8:12 Kadi Silde, Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence
9:07 Mary Fitzgerald
9:32 Kadi Silde, Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence
10:51 Mary Fitzgerald
11:23 João Gomes Cravinho, Portuguese Minister of Defence
16:31 Mary Fitzgerald
17:03 João Gomes Cravinho, Portuguese Minister of Defence
18:52 Mary Fitzgerald
19:10 João Gomes Cravinho, Portuguese Minister of Defence
20:23 Mary Fitzgerald
20:42 Tania Lațici, Co-lead of NATO2030 Young Leaders and Security and Defence expert at the European External Action Service (EEAS)
28:03 Mary Fitzgerald
29:16 Kadi Silde, Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence
30:18 João Gomes Cravinho, Portuguese Minister of Defence
32:01 Mary Fitzgerald

32:26 Q&A Alejandro Esteso, Programme Executive in Peace, Security and Defence at Friends of Europe
33:07 Mary Fitzgerald
33:22 Olivier-Remy Bel, Special Advisor for the French Presidency of the EU, Ministry of Armed Forces, France
34:25 Robert Pszczel, Senior Fellow, Casimir Pulaski Foundation
35:47 Mary Fitzgerald
35:56 Tania Lațici, Co-lead of NATO2030 Young Leaders and Security and Defence expert at the European External Action Service (EEAS)
38:59 Mary Fitzgerald
39:22 Tania Lațici, Co-lead of NATO2030 Young Leaders and Security and Defence expert at the European External Action Service (EEAS)
40:33 Kadi Silde, Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence
42:50 João Gomes Cravinho, Portuguese Minister of Defence
46:17 Mary Fitzgerald
47:08 Tania Lațici, Co-lead of NATO2030 Young Leaders and Security and Defence expert at the European External Action Service (EEAS)
49:09 Kadi Silde, Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence
49:28 João Gomes Cravinho, Portuguese Minister of Defence
51:31 Conclusion

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