25th International WDR Europaforum 2023
Participants
Supporting Ukraine against Russia’s aggression is just one of the new challenges Europe is facing. The ‘Zeitenwende’, or turn of the times, has thoroughly changed framework conditions for all major tasks of the EU.
Manon Aubry
The Left Group in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL, MEP
Dietmar Bartsch
Co-Chairman of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE in the German Bundestag
Alexander Bernhuber
Group of the European People‘s Party (Christian Democrats) – EPP, MEP
Tom Buhrow
Director General of Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Delara Burkhardt
Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament – S&D, MEP
Prof. Dr. Belachew Gebrewold
Professor of International Relations at the Management Center Innsbruck
Thomas Haldenwang
Director General of the German domestic intelligence services
Kira Marie Peter-Hansen
Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance – EFA, MEP
Othma Karas
First Vice-President of the European Parliament, EPP
Susanne Koelbl
Foreign correspondent DER SPIEGEL
Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Juliane Kokott
Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union
Dr. Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission
Dr. Anna Lührmann
Minister of State for Europe and Climate at the Federal Foreign Office, Alliance 90/The Greens
Sergey Lukashevsky
Director of the Moscow Sakharov Centre for Human Rights
Dr. Bijan Moini
Head of Legal of the Society for Civil Rights, Author
Johan Nissinen
Group of European Conservatives and Reformers – ECR, MEP
Aydan Özoguz
Vice-President of the German Bundestag, SPD
Georg Pfeifer
Head of the Representation of the European Parliament in Germany
Prof. Shubha Kamala Prasad
Assistant Professor of International Relations at Hertie School Berlin
Nataliya Pryhornytska
Political scientist, host of the „UkraineMEMO“ podcast, Co-Founder of the Alliance of Ukrainian Organisations
Olaf Scholz
Federal Chancellor
Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer
Member of the Executive Board of the Bertelsmann Foundation
Dr. Linn Selle
President of the European Movement Germany
Dr. Angela Stanzel
Sinologist, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)
Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Federal President
Emma Wiesner
Renew Europe Group, MEP
Dr. Jörg Wojahn
Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Germany
Moderators
Ute Brucker
Head of the Department for Foreign Affairs/Europe, Südwestrundfunk
Ellen Ehni
Editor-in-Chief Politics and Current Affairs, WDR
Tina Hassel
Head of the ARD Capital Studio Berlin
Eva Lindenau
Programme Director phoenix
Stefan Niemann
Foreign Department Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Markus Preiß
Head of ARD-Europastudio Brussels
Sabine Scholt
Head of Domestic and International Affairs, WDR