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Event | 30 January 2018

The Next 100 Years: UK-Baltic Cooperation in Euro-Atlantic Security

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In the context of the Baltic centenary, the European Leadership Network (ELN) is co-hosting with the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Embassies a discussion on “The Next 100 Years: UK-Baltic Cooperation in Euro-Atlantic Security.” The event will be held on Wednesday 31st January 2018 in the Palace of Westminster.

The discussion will focus on UK and Baltic 3 perspectives on NATO and its role in Euro-Atlantic security, as well as on the future of UK-Baltic relations in the context of Brexit.

 

Chair: Sir Malcom Rifkind (Invited), former UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Board Member of the European Leadership Network.

 

Speakers:

  • Kadri Liik, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR);
  • Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Director at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science (Vilnius University);
  • Andris Spruds, Director of the Latvian Institute for International Affairs;
  • Ian Bond, Head of Foreign Policy, Centre for European Reform; former UK Ambassador to Latvia

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