Dear Colleagues!
The Foreign Policy Research Institute, with the assistance of the Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions, invites you to the roundtable discussion for foreign diplomatic missions, leading Ukrainian mass media outlets, and experts on a topic entitled The Donald Trump NATO Summit: Bottom Line for Europe’s Security, which will take place on Monday, 7 July 2025, from 11:00 am to 1:10 pm at the Media Center Directorate of the GDIP located at 6-А Pyrohova St.
The speakers will discuss the following framework issues:
- From euphoria to reality: What does the outcome of the NATO summit in The Hague mean for Ukraine?
- 0.25% from the 5% of the NATO’s states’ GDP until 2035 towards Ukraine’s defence in lieu of membership in the alliance: an equal trade?
- Is NATO without the US worth keeping, if Europeans are to bear the lion’s share of the costs?
- Article 5 of the Washington Treaty: alive or dead when the strategy of containment no longer works?
- The evolution of NATO’s position on Ukraine: from the ‘war with Russia must not spill over from Ukraine’s borders’ principle to strategic uncertainty in which ‘Russia is not an aggressor, but only a long-term threat’;
- NATO summit in The Hague leaves Ukraine in a buffer zone outside the defences of Europe’s eastern flank;
- NATO as a challenge to building a new defence alliance in Europe;
- Who is able to defend Europe, without or outside NATO?
- Ukraine has a crucial role to play in building a new security architecture in Europe.
The speakers’ panel will feature:
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;
Oleh BIELOKOLOS, Director of the Center for National Resilience Studies;
Volodymyr OHRYZKO, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007–9), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Head of the Centre for russian Studie;
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;
Mykola SUNHUROVSKYI, Military Programmes Director of the Razumkov Centre.
Working language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English.
To register or request additional information, please contact us by phone at +38 (097) 487-20-00 or via e-mail at pgrigoriy@ukr.net.
Registration will remain open until 6 July 2025.
If you are arriving by your vehicle, please call +38 (067) 215-16-09 to have the barrier raised.
Join us!
