Strengthening Europe's 'soft' and 'hard' defence

 Strengthening Europe's 'soft' and 'hard' defence(meeting)

Date	25 March 2019 13:00 - 25 March 2019 17:00
Location	Clingendael Institute,  The Hague,  Netherlands
Planners	Institute for Statecraft, Clingendael Institute, Dick Zandee, Danny Pronk, Tony van der Togt
Participants	Neil Barnett, Chris Donnelly, Margriet Drent, Maria de Goeij, Birgit Heijl, Katarina Kerysova, Rem Korteweg, Johanna Möhring, Gwenda Nielen, Danny Pronk, Samira Rafaela, Alan Riley, Domitille Rochatte, Adája Stoetman, Tony van der Togt, Martin Vermaase, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Dick Zandee
Description	Chatham House rule meeting with organised by the Institute for Statecraft and the Clingendael Institute.

Strengthening Europe's 'soft' and 'hard' defence was a meeting in late March 2019 organised by the Institute for Statecraft and the Clingendael Institute, focused on two dimensions of European defence.

Agenda

The meeting website suggests a roundtable. It published a simple agenda.

'Softer' side of European defence

How to respond to disinformation campaigns & cyberthreats?

'Hard' security threats

How should European defence initiatives should respond to 'hard' threats?

Conclusion

Closing drinks from 17-18 hrs.

Etiquette

A hardwritten namecard for Maria de Goeij

The website notes that the Chatham House rule would be observed. The Clingendael Institute website published a photostream but did not publish an attendance list.

 

Known Participants

5 of the 18 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Neil Barnett
Chris Donnelly	A UK Deep politician who set up the Institute for Statecraft (amongst other groups).
Maria de Goeij	Integrity Initiative/Institute for Statecraft polyglot
Johanna Möhring	A senior fellow of the Institute for Statecraft
Alan Riley	UK solicitor/academic who worked for the Institute for Statecraft

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