NATO Talk 2025: Contribution to Panel on the Strategic State of Play – in Europe & the World

During the NATO Talk 2025 of the German Atlantic Society (Deutsch-Atlantische Gesellschaft e. V.) on 6 November 2025 in Berlin, during the panel discussion on  debate on „The Strategic State of Play – in Europe & the World“, European Cosmopolitan’s founder Andrej Novak contributed questions about Russia’s plans to subjugate Europa as part of the systemic, global conflict of aggressive autocracies against democracy per se, the threat of Chinese defence production in so-called „Dark Factories“ and possible Chinese aggression against Australia.

See video (in German) below for details.

Panel participants:

His Excellency Oleksii Makeiev, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany

Dr. Norbert Röttgen, Christian Democratic Union MP & Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag

Dr. Mikko Huotari, Director of MERICS

Dr. Margarete Klein, Lead Researcher on Eastern Europa & Eurasia, German Institute for International & Security Affairs

Moderated by Nora Müller, Head of International Affairs, Körber Foundation

Video (click on the picture below to watch):