NATO’s European Dimension

Monday 21 June 2010

Concert Noble, Brussels

PROGRAMME
 Session I
11:00-12:00
NATO’s Outlook: Radical change or steady as she goes?

NATO is intent on reinventing itself, but how realistic is this ambition? Will the new Strategic
Concept be radical enough to adapt NATO structures and thinking to the challenges of the new
global security environment? How should it reflect the shifts in the transatlantic relationship since
2001 and questions about European and American shared interests? Will the new Concept resolve
or exacerbate the turf war with the EU? What will be the reaction from non-member states like
Russia and China? This session will include a discussion on the 10 recommendations from the
SDA’s global Security Jam session which emerged from the online debate on security threats
and policies in February 2010, which featured the input of 4,000 experts from 124 countries.

Speakers:
Luis Manuel Cuesta Civís, Secretary General of Defence Policy, Ministry of Defence, Spanish
Presidency of the EU
Larry Hirst, EMEA Chairman, IBM Corporation
Imants Liegis, Minister of Defence, Republic of Latvia
Dmitry Rogozin, Ambassador and Head of Mission, Mission of Russia to NATO

Moderated by Giles Merritt, Director, Security & Defence Agenda, and Peter R. Weilemann,
Director of the Brussels Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Keynote
Speech “Security in an Era of Budgetary Scarcity”
12:00 –13:00

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The speech will be followed by a Q&A session.

Lunch 13:00-14:00

Card Room

SIPRI 2010 Yearbook Launch. SIPRI Director Bates Gill will present the new
edition of the SIPRI Yearbook, with its analysis of security and conflicts, military
spending and armaments, arms control and disarmament. All participants are
welcome to join the discussion, preview the contents and pick up an executive
summary of the book.
 Session II
14:00-15:30
Is transatlantic defence procurement a “two-way street”?

Both NATO and the European Union have invested much political capital in the liberalisation of
defence industry contracts across the Atlantic. The competitive advantages enjoyed by many US
defence companies – not least their substantial lead in advanced technologies – have created a
widening defence trade gap in America’s favour. But does the controversy surrounding the US Air
Force’s hotly-contested $50bn-plus tanker deal risk seriously souring transatlantic defence industry
relations? Does the EU need to become more assertive if it is to even out the playing field in
transatlantic defence procurement? Do we need a more radical change in pooling defence
procurement?

Speakers:
Robert Bell, Secretary of Defense Representative to Europe and Defense Advisor, United States
Mission to the EU
Jeffrey Bialos, Executive Director of the Program on Transatlantic Security and Industry, Center for
Transatlantic Relations
Richard D.F. Froh, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Armaments, NATO
Scott A. Harris, President Continental Europe, Lockheed Martin Global
David O’Sullivan, Director General for Trade, European Commission

Moderated by Giles Merritt, Director, Security & Defence Agenda, and Peter R. Weilemann,
Director of the Brussels Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Coffee Break 15:30-16:00

Session III
16:00-17:30
Would better coordination mean success in Afghanistan?

Debate still rages in the US and Europe over how troop withdrawal targets in Afghanistan can be
reconciled with sustained and successful military operations against the Taliban. How can the EU
live up to its development and reconstruction responsibilities in Afghanistan? Do we need a new
approach to NATO, EU, UN and NGO coordination? Although the ISAF mission is a NATO
responsibility, how relevant is the situation in Afghanistan to European public support for ESDP?
What greater effort is needed to convince public opinion that Afghanistan is crucial to Western
security?

Speakers:
Robert Cooper, Director-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs, Council of the European
Union
Ivo H. Daalder, Ambassador and Permanent Representative, United States Mission to NATO
Kai Eide, former UN Special Representative of the Secretary General to Afghanistan
Gen. Sir John McColl, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO

Moderated by Giles Merritt, Director, Security & Defence Agenda, and Peter R. Weilemann,
Director of the Brussels Office, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

End of conference 17:30