Debate
The UK and the EU: what shared interests in a digitised and geopolitical world?
- Date
- Wednesday 11 June 2025
- Time
- Location
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- WH3.60
The EU and the UK are now in the post-Brexit era but also face a rapidly changing European and global security architecture in combination with a heavy strain on transatlantic relations. In addition to geopolitics and hard military security, there are big questions about cyber security and digitisation. How to defend the digital realm? How to deal with (over)reliance on American digital companies, platforms and infrastructure? And how to mitigate dependencies in the global digital supply chain? What is the direction the UK and the EU should take together in these volatile times? What are the possibilities for cooperation and where do strategic interests align and diverge?
The Hague Program on International Cyber Security organises a public debate on these questions on Wednesday the 11th of June 2025, from 15:00-17:00, at Wijnhaven.
Speakers include:
- Sir Julian King (Partner at Flint Global, previously the UK’s EU Commissioner 2016-19, responsible for EU policy on security, cyber, tech and data);
- Prof Alexander Evans (Professor in Practice in Public Policy at the London School of Economics, previously adviser to the UK Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street and Director Cyber in the Foreign Office; and Visiting Fellow with The Hague Program in early June)
- Wouter Jurgens (Director for Security Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands);
- Helena Farrand Carrapico (Professor of International Relations and European Politics, Northumbria University).
Moderated by prof.dr. Dennis Broeders (Professor of Global Security and Technology, Leiden University, and Senior Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security).
Registration
Registration is free, but mandatory. Please fill out the form at the link below.