L to R: Dr. Matthias Ruete, Di-rector General, Directorate-General for Home Affairs, Euro-pean Commission, EU Commis-sioner for Migration, Home Affairs & Citizenship and Karl von Wogau, Secretary General of the Kangaroo Group

The European Security

Forum, initiated by Chris-

toph Raab, Chairman of

the European Security

Round Table, has been set

-up in Brussels by Europe-

an Security Round Table,

the Konrad-Adenauer

Foundation, the Kangaroo

Group and Fondation pour

la Recherche Stratégique

on 17-18 November 2014.

Our sincere appreciation goes to Michael Gahler, MEP and Con-

ference President, who believed in this project from its very

beginning. Also thanks to the cross-party political support (EPP

Group and S&D Group) and the wide international network of

Partners, the European Security Forum 2014 attracted over 200

participants. Among the

numerous Organizations

supporting the project, a

special thanks goes to the

official Partners: BAKS,

Berlin, Egmont Royal Insti-

tute for International Rela-

tions, Brussels, IAI, Rome,

College of Europe and the

ISS, Krakow. The contribu-

tors -speakers and partici-

pants- came from 44 cities

across 30 countries; 90

different organizations

were represented, 29 Governments. Among high ranking

speakers were Pavlo Klimkin, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign

Affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU Commissioner for Migration,

Home Affairs and Citizenship, Elmar Brok, Chairman of the For-

eign Affairs Committee, Michel Barnier, former Vice President

of the European Commission for Internal Market, the Chief

Executive of the European Defence Agency Claude France Ar-

nould and Vladimir Chizhov, Permanent Representative of the

Russian Federation to the EU. We would like to express our

sincere thanks once more to our sponsors Safran, Diehl and

Airbus for supporting this initiative.

Christoph Raab, Chairman of the Europe-an Security Round Table and Conference Initiator, Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of For-eign Affairs, Ukraine and Michael Gahler MEP, Conference President

Claude France Arnould, Chief Executive of the EDA and Michel Barnier, former Vice President of the European Commis-sion for Internal Market

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What’s next

Explaining Europe “Do we need a new sovereignty on the internet?” The event, co-

organised with the Alumni Association of the Konrad Adenauer

Foundation will be held at the University of Karlsruhe on 30 April

2015. EU Officials and experts from Germany will explain to a

non-technical business and academic audience the complexities

of cyber security issues.

Luncheon Debate on Smart Energies On the 24th of March 2015, the European Security Round Table

will organise a luncheon debate to discuss mobile autonomous

energy systems to be used in challenging context, such as disas-

ter management or military environment. A open discussion will

be followed by stakeholders’ comments. The event will be host-

ed by Ioan Mircea Pașcu MEP, Vice-Chairman of the European

Parliament and Member of the ESRT Advisory Board.

Series of Workshops

Next to its policy roundtables, the ESRT also offers a series of

workshops on "How to do business with the EU". The workshops

are organized by sectors and do not only involve concrete, high-

value information by experts, evaluators and successful practi-

tioners but also exercises. The next workshop will take place on

22/23.4 in Brussels and is organised jointly with the Behörden-

Spiegel.

Panel: We Agree to Disagree - Security Perceptions in Europe Riccardo Migliori, MP, Special Advisor at the OSCE, Jean-Dominique Giu-liani, President of the Robert Schuman Foundation, Arnaud Danjean, MEP, Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for relations with the NATO Par-

liamentary Assembly, Sergejs Potapkins, Member of the Parliament,

Latvia

On 4th February 2015, set-up together with Mi-

crosoft a debate on the Need for International

Cybersecurity Norms of Behaviour in an Internet-

Dependent World. An introduction has been given

by Paul Nicholas Senior Director, Global Security

Strategy and Diplomacy, Trustworthy Computing,

Microsoft, Christian-Marc Lifländer Policy Advisor

at NATO, Steve Purser, Head of Core Operations

Department at ENISA and Rudolf Roy Head of Se-

curity Policy and Sanctions Division, EEAS.

Breakfast on Cyber Security

e-SRT Cyber Platform

European Cloud: Vision or Fiction

Recently at the e-SRT:

On the 27th of January, the e-SRT and AFCEA Eu-

rope ran a joint event in cooperation with DG

Connect on “Cloud 4 Europe”, a highly topical

theme that will affect all of us and will dominate

the IT-related public discussions and will so for

sure also influence the debates and decision mak-

ing processes of the European institutions over the

next years. The symposium kicks off with an ex-

citing discussion for a European cloud relying on a

robust European critical infrastructure for the pub-

lic environment: top-level politicians as well as

representatives from industry and government

hold a debate on current opportunities and pro-

vide the vision for the future.

Consisting in an opening session starring Director General Dr. Zoran Stančič

and 4 breakaway sessions, the Conference touched different aspects of

cloud computing: from the economic advantages and best practice exam-

ples to the coordination and regulation across-Europe to the development

of standards to security and privacy related-issues.

If you have any questions

concerning the events,

please contact the ESRT

Director Event Coordina-

tion Laura Marenghi

+32 (0) 2 640 63 92

ESRT Contact information:

European Security Round Table

Rue d’Arlon 51, 1040 Brussels

Tel.: +32 (0) 2 640 63 92

Fax: +32 (0) 2 646 61 93

Upcoming e-SRT activities

22-23 April 2015

Workshop: How to do Business with the EU in the ICT

Sector, co-organised with Behörden Spiegel

II half of April 2015

Round Table on Cyber Crime

Early May 2015

Round Table on the implementation of the NIS directive

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Further ESRT activities April 2015

Round Table: the Strategic Military Situation in the Black

Sea

May 2015

Round Table: the Impact of the Defence Package Directives

on European Defence

May 2015

Round Table: Prevent Home-grown Islamist Extremism