Time to Decide Europe Summit 2025 is a one-day conference organized by ERSTE Foundation in cooperation with the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM Vienna) that will address some of Europe’s most pressing challenges.
Interstate conflicts once consigned to history are flaring up in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Democracy is in retreat, with autocracies now outnumbering democracies for the first time in two decades. The United States, once considered a beacon of democracy and a champion of the rules-based international order, has upended global trade and sought to export its illiberal revolution to Europe. The EU, once a project of peace, is having to find its war footing to deter a Russian aggression without being able to rely on US security guarantees. Europeans are beginning to rethink and rearm, but progress is too slow. As one strategist put it: Europe must muscle up "at the speed of fear."
The conference, held in English, will have three 90-minute panel discussions, each featuring eight experts and moderated by high-level politicians, who will then converge for a concluding panel and discuss key take aways. Click here for the detailed agenda.
SPEAKERS
Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Centre
Marie-Helene Ametsreiter, General Partner at Speedinvest
Veronica Anghel, Assistant Professor at EUI/Europe’s Futures Fellow
Rosa Balfour, Director of Carnegie Europe/Europe’s Futures Fellow
Martina Dalić, President of the Management Board of Podravka
Judy Dempsey, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe/Europe’s Futures Fellow
Nikola Dimitrov, President of the Balkan Center for Constructive Policies – Solution and former Foreign Minister of North Macedonia
Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow at Stanford University/Europe’s Futures Fellow
Sigrid Kaag, Lecturer at Science Po and former First Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Permanent Fellow at IWM
Karel Lannoo, Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for European Policy Studies
James C. O’Brien, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs/Europe’s Futures Fellow
Gladden Pappin, President of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs
Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania
Alexander Schallenberg, President of the Europe’s Futures Initiative and former Chancellor of Austria
Tomáš Sedláček, Director of the Vaclav Havel Library/Europe’s Futures Fellow
Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali/Europe’s Futures Fellow
Andreas Treichl, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ERSTE Foundation
Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Warsaw
Lea Ypi, Professor of Political Theory at LSE/Europe’s Futures Fellow
