About this webinar
NATO leaders will face one of the Alliance’s most consequential summits in Ankara on 7-8 July. Washington has signalled it will earmark fewer forces for NATO, redirecting assets towards other theatres, even as Russia tests the Alliance through sabotage and incursions from South-Eastern Europe to the High North.
The challenge in Ankara is to keep the US engaged while accelerating a stronger European pillar within a stronger NATO, converting rising budgets into real capabilities, bolstering air defence and military mobility, and sustaining support for Ukraine.
This RUSI Europe webinar asks: what can we realistically expect from the Ankara summit? How can Europeans do more without weakening the bonds that keep the US committed? And how can burden-shifting strengthen, rather than fracture, the Alliance?
Speakers
- Rachel Ellehuus, RUSI Director-General
- Matthew Savill, Director, Military Sciences, RUSI or Dr Linus Terhorst, Research Fellow, Military Sciences, RUSI
- Oana Lungescu, RUSI Europe Advisory Board Member
- Brigadier (Ret’d) Robbie Boyd OBE, RUSI Associate Fellow, International Security (tbc)
- General Sir Adrian Bradshaw KCB OBE DL, RUSI Distinguished Fellow (tbc)
Moderator: Dr Jonathan Eyal, RUSI Europe Executive Director
Joining instructions
This is an online event, open to all, If you have any questions regarding the event, please email [email protected].