Crossroads of Europe

NATO and European defense at a time of war in Ukraine

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, February 10, 2022. © Olivier Matthys/AP

By: Frederique Lebel

NATO tested right down to its historical foundations and its ability to intervene by Vladimir Putin.

The European defense summoned to move up a gear when it was only in its infancy.

And the question of neutrality which will perhaps impose itself as the ultimate solution for Ukraine. 

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Our guests

:

- Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, political scientist, head of the Paris office of the German Marshall fund, specialist in transatlantic relations and NATO 

- Tara Varma,

director in Paris of the think tank European Council on Foreign Relations, specialist in European Defense

- Alexander Stubb

, ex-Prime Minister of Finland, teaches at the European University Institute in Florence. 

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