Over the last three years, the European Union has faced fallout from areas of limited statehood and contested order just beyond its borders. Recent events in Belarus and Lebanon are two examples of how governance breakdowns abroad can threaten the EU’s security.

Since 2018, the Horizon2020 EU-LISTCO project has investigated such challenges, making recommendations on how the EU can better foster resilience in its neighbourhood. As the project comes to an end, you are cordially invited to a special discussion about EU-LISTCO’s findings.

The event will kick off with a fireside chat between Judy Dempsey and Linas Linkevičius, former foreign minister of Lithuania and a key voice in shaping the EU’s policy toward Belarus.

Judy Dempsey and Linas Linkevičius will then be joined by Riccardo Alcaro and Tanja A. Börzel for a broader discussion on the challenges in the EU’s eastern and southern neighborhoods and the opportunities that a reenergized transatlantic relationship may bring about in the region.

To submit a question for the event, please use the YouTube chat, email malte.peters@ceip.org, or tweet at us @eulistco.

Panelists

● Riccardo Alcaro is research coordinator and head of the Global Actors Program at the Italian Institute of International Relations.

● Tanja A. Börzel is a professor and the director of the Center for European Integration at the Free University of Berlin.

● Linas Linkevičius is a former Lithuanian minister of foreign affairs (2012–2020) and defense (2000–2004 and 1993–1996).

Moderated by

● Judy Dempsey is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Europe Foundation in Brussels and the editor in chief of Strategic Europe.