Europe’s role in the world: A foreign policy guided by values in the light of global crisis management

The European Union is the result of a large number of successfully overcome crises. Having started out as a peace project, the EU is now an important player for peace, security and sustainability in the world. It is not only bound by its fundamental values in its internal actions; human rights, the rule of law and democracy are also guiding principles for its foreign policy. The current wars and crises in the world challenge the EU to strengthen the cornerstones of its value-based foreign and security policy. What does a value-based foreign policy mean for the reorganization of European security after the Russian attack on Ukraine or the Hamas massacres in Israel? What strategies does the EU have towards autocracies and their alliances that reject European values? How can European values be strengthened and, if necessary, renewed in the face of these challenges?

Program

Greeting
Friedrich von Heusinger
Head of the Representation of the State of Hesse to the EU
Dr. Stefan Kroll
PRIF – Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research

Impulse
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff
PRIF – Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, Research Center “Normative Orders”

Panel discussion
Prof. Dr. Nicole Deitelhoff
Hannah Neumann
Member of the European Parliament
Prof. Dr. Frank Hoffmeister
Director of the European External Action Service

Moderation
Rebecca C. Schmidt
Research Center “Normative Orders” – Goethe University Frankfurt

The event will be simultaneously interpreted (English/German).