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