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European Security 07: Protection from Foreign Interference – The Roles of the European Union and NATO
Time:
Tuesday, 02/Sept/2025:
11:30am - 1:00pm

Session Chair: Tomáš Weiss

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Protection from Foreign Interference – The Roles of the European Union and NATO

Chair(s): Tomáš Weiss (Charles University)

Presenter(s): Jocelyn Mawdsley (Newcastle University), Patrick Müller (University of Vienna), Natasza Styczyńska (Jagiellonian University), Tomáš Weiss (Charles University), Mats Braun (Institute of International Relations Prague)

This non-traditional panel will discuss the roles of the EU and NATO in the current debate on foreign interference in Europe. Foreign interference has become a major topic long before the ground-breaking decision by the Romanian constitutional court to cancel the first round of presidential elections. Protection from foreign interference featured as a key topic in the programme of the first Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission and looms large in the programme of the NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. In international relations, however, interference has always existed; doubly so in the context of the interdependent, commercially and institutionally interlinked European space. The panel will discuss what forms of interference are problematic and which are harmless, what causes the current attention to foreign interference, in which sectors is the issue most relevant. It will ask what securitisation of foreign interference means for the European Union, NATO and their cooperation, particularly in the context of the new US administration and its first months in the office.