International

En­dan­gered Pro­ject Eu­rope: On Wish­ful Think­ing and Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy Am­bi­tion

The International Department cordially invites you to the festive closing event of this year's CENTRAL Leadership Program. The programme annually brings together young talents from Central and Eastern Europe with representatives from academia, politics and civil society.

The aim is to discuss societal and foreign policy challenges in Central Europe across generations, and seeking solutions together.

Programme

  • 4:00pm – Welcome. Keynote by Thomas Urban, longtime correspondent for Süddeutsche Zeitung in Eastern Europe: "Endangered Project Europe. On wishful thinking and economic policy ambitions of German foreign policy"
  • 4:45pm – Panel discussion "German foreign policy under pressure: Perspectives and outlook" with Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse, Einstein Professor at HU and Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), and Thomas Urban, journalist and non-fiction author

Live translation equipment from German to English will be available upon request. Afterwards, we warmly invite you to a reception in front of the Senate Hall.

Please note that this event takes place under the Chatham House Rule1. Seats are limited, so if you would like to attend please register by 3 September.

Time

09.09.2025, 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Place

Main building, Senate Hall

  1. The Chatham House Rule is named after the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, also known as Chatham House. It states: "When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed." ↩

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