24th International WDR Europaforum 2022
Participants
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken the international order to its foundations. Solidarity with Kiev is the imperative of the hour. Europe is called upon to assert its fundamental values in a changed world.

Annalena Baerbock
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

Tom Buhrow
Director-General of Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Lena Chernenko
Journalist, Moscow

Bijan Djir-Sarai
Secretary General of the FDP, MP

Lars Klingbeil
Co-Chair of SPD

Roberta Metsola
President of the European Parliament

Friedrich Merz
Federal Chairman of the CDU, Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag

Aleksandra Otschman
Journalist, Kiev

Prof. Dr. Hedwig Richter
University of the Bundeswehr, Munich

Claudia Roth
Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Author and dramaturge

Martin Schirdewan
Co-Chair Left Group European Parliament

Prof. Dr. Ursula Schröder
Scientific Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg

Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer
Executive Director for Europe and Eurasia, Open Society Foundations

Frans Timmermans
Vicepresident of the European Commission

Dr. Jörg Wojahn
Head of European Commission Representation in Germany

Sonja Zekri
Cultural correspondent Süddeutsche Zeitung in Berlin
Moderators

Andreas Cichowicz
Editor-in-Chief Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Dr. Joachim Görgen
Head of Trimedia News SWR

Tina Hassel
Head of ARD Capital Studio Berlin

Vivian Perkovic
Journalist, Moderator Kulturzeit/3sat

Markus Preiß
ARD Europe Studio

Isabel Schayani
Head of WDRforyou, Moderator „Weltspiegel“

Sabine Scholt
Head of WDR Programme Group Current Affairs, Europe and Abroad