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Timothy Snyder
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FRIDAY 19 JUNE 2015

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British Prime Minister David Cameron will come to Slovakia for the first time. He will attend the global conference on foreign policy and security in Bratislava.
Besides him, five more prime ministers, six presidents and almost a thousand participants will attend this years GLOBSEC. Do not miss David Camerons
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keynote speach at 13:00 on Friday at Kempinski hotel.

The eurozone needs to become a transfer union, the chaos to the south and east
requires vigorous European intervention. It could happen, but neither the European
public, nor the policy-makers are ready for such steps

Leaderless World

he Juncker Curse could be the

Wests
epitaph.
The former head of
government in Luxembourg (now running the
European Commission) bemoaned Europes feebleness in
economic reform. We know
what to do. We just dont know
how to get elected after weve
done it.
If things looked bad when he
said that in 2008, they are worse now. The war in Georgia displayed the Kremlins aggressive
mindset but also Russias military weakness. Few people
then believed that Vladimir
Putin would be able to mount
a sharp strategic challenge to
NATO in the Baltic states.
NATO has reluctantly moved on contingency planning

EDWARD
LUCAS
The Economist

and prepositioning. But the gap

between alliance capabilities
and those of Russia is widening not shrinking especially
if you take nuclear weapons,
space, new-generation conventional, cyber and propaganda
weapons into account.
Europes leaders are worried, quite rightly, about other
things. The problems of the
tiny Greek economy have been allowed to balloon into an
international financial crisis.
Everyone knows what is needed: debt relief plus real reform. But nobody seems able to
negotiate it.

The Middle East looked bad

in 2008. It is far worse now,
with Syria, Yemen and Iraq in
chaos. The tides of migrants
fleeing abominable conditions
in countries such as Eritrea,
or simply wanting a better
life than quite well-run places such as Senegal can offer,
overwhelms Europes fraying
solidarity.
The real lesson in the dreadful mess of 2015 is that Europes internal problems cannot
be fixed without much stronger
government at home and abroad. The euro zone, if it is going
to survive, needs to become
a transfer union, with transfers
of money in one direction and
of sovereignty in another.
Similarly, the chaos to the
south and east requires vigorous European interventionpo-

The real
lesson in the
dreadful mess
of 2015 is
that Europes
internal
problems
cannot
be fixed
without much
stronger
government
at home and
abroad.

litical, economic and military. It

could happen: with 500 million
people and a nearly $20 trillion
GDP Europe is the biggest and
richest place in the world. In
conjunction with Americas military might, the EUs economic
heft makes it an equal partner
in an alliance that could run
the world.
True, neither the European
public, nor the policy-makers,
are remotely ready for such
steps. But what is the alternative? It is not the status quo, but
the destruction of the European economic and security order
so laboriously built up over the
past six decades, with poverty,
instability, misery and war, not
just in the European neighbourhood, but in Europes heartlands. Globsec has much to
discuss.

ear GLOBSEC
friends, it
is my great
honour and
pleasure to
welcome you on behalf of
the whole GLOBSEC team
to the tenth jubilee Bratislava Global Security Forum,
GLOBSEC 2015.
It has been a decade since
we organised the first edition of this conference.
Since then, Europe and
the world have changed
tremendously and we have
faced one of the most dynamic decades in history. The
mission to bring peace, freedom and security to Europe
is not yet finished.
GLOBSEC has developed
against the background of
this exceptionally dynamic
period. It has become an
indispensable forum for
sharing new ideas and formulating answers to the
challenges that we face.
It is up to all of us to
transform the debates into
political actions and strategies. You, the GLOBSEC
community, are crucial in
this endeavour. Use the
three day conference to the
maximum, spread our debates beyond the walls of this
venue and translate them
into action.
Dear friends, welcome to
Bratislava, welcome to Central Europe and enjoy every
minute of GLOBSEC 2015.

ROBERT VASS
Founder of the
GLOBSEC Forum

INSIDE
Andrei Zubov How can we solve the Crimean problem?
Page 2
What should you see?
Ambassador Rastislav Ker
recommends which panels
are most interesting for him
this year at Globsec. Page 2
Best quotes of GLOBSEC
Page 2
10 years of GLOBSEC:
How do you remember it?
Page 3
Timothy Snyder - Interview
about the Russian challenge
with Yale historian. Page 4