On Monday, 7 July 2025, the Foreign Policy Research Institute, with the organisational support of the State Enterprise ‘Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions’, held a roundtable discussion titled The Donald Trump NATO Summit: Bottom Line for Europe’s Security.
Hryhorii Perepelytsia, Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, full professor at the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations (ESIIR) of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Doctor of Political Science, moderated the event.
Leading experts on security, defence and international politics joined the event to analyse the results of this year’s NATO Summit in The Hague and their impact on Ukraine and European security in general. Among the speakers of the roundtable were Oleh Bielokolos, Director of the Center for National Resilience Studies; Volodymyr Havrylov, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2022–23), Defence Attaché of Ukraine in the US (2015–18), Major General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reserve; Oleksandr Khara, Director of the Centre for Defence Strategies; Valentyn Badrak, Director of the Centre for Army Research, Conversion, and Disarmament; and Mykola Sunhurovskyi, Military Programmes Director at the Razumkov Centre.
The participants discussed a number of pressing and important issues: the results of the NATO Summit in The Hague for Ukraine, including the decision to allocate 0.25% of 5% of the GDP of the Allies to support Ukraine’s defence until 2035; the evolution of NATO’s position on Ukraine from limited support to strategic uncertainty and the prospects for relations; the future of the Alliance in the new security architecture, etc.
The experts agreed that the current strategic uncertainty of the Alliance poses security risks not only for Ukraine but for the whole of Europe. Instead, Ukraine has an ambitious and potentially decisive role to play in shaping a new European security system that could meet current threats and challenges. The discussion also touched upon the possibility of alternative formats of defence cooperation on the continent and the need for greater independence of European countries in security matters.
The event aroused keen interest among the expert community, diplomats and representatives of think tanks, becoming another step towards shaping a national vision of Ukraine’s place in the European and global security system.
