Forum Atlantic Council 2015 - Washington

Charting NATO’s Future

September 24, 2015 | Washington

Mr. Petru Schipor attended one of the periodic meetings held under the umbrella of the Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security on September 24, 2015. The conference, part of the center’s Charting NATO’s Future series, was held in preparation of the Warsaw Summit in 2016. The keynote address featured H.E. Ine Eriksen Soreide, Minister of Defense of Norway, and the Hon. Chuck Hagel, Distinguished Statesman of the Atlantic Council and former Secretary of Defense of the United States.

The transatlantic community faces urgent challenges on multiple fronts. In the East, the crisis in Ukraine continues unabated, coupled with Russian assertiveness and pushing West-Russia tensions to an all-time high in the post-Cold War environment. In the south, conflicts in the wider Middle East have fueled the rise of new terrorist groups and catalyzed one of the worst refugee crises that Europe has faced since World War II. At the same time, the transatlantic community faces challenges in political unity, from ongoing debates about burden-sharing and defense spending to the rise of fringe political parties to new cracks and fissures in European unity and solidarity.

The Atlantic Council is convening leading experts from across Europe and North America to analyze these critically important issues, what they mean for NATO's future, and what policies and strategies NATO and its members should consider ahead of the Warsaw Summit in 2016.