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![Gazprom's Amur Gas Processing Plant is shown near the town of Svobodny on September 13, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-07/GettyImages-1662623992.jpg?h=a3375038&itok=6RKUaJIi)
To discuss how to strengthen economic security and sanctions enforcement in Europe, Laura Kovesi, the EU public prosecutor, Martin Vladimirov, director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) in Sofia, and Isaac Levi, Europe-Russia policy and energy analysis team lead at the Finland-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) will meet for a Hudson panel.
![Gazprom's Amur Gas Processing Plant is shown near the town of Svobodny on September 13, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-07/GettyImages-1662623992.jpg?h=a3375038&itok=9zcO7kfw)
![Ukrainian soldiers fire an artillery piece at their combat position in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on July 26, 2024. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-08/GettyImages-2163477889.jpg?h=499776ca&itok=rss0ZCxY)
![Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on May 10, 2024, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Photo by Azerbaijani ForeignMinistry/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-07/GettyImages-2151786947.jpg?h=264cc44d&itok=YTtquxHZ)
![Mihai Popoi delivers a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, on April 9, 2024. (Photo by John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2144462801.jpg?h=f5a0b26d&itok=56c1Nqxo)
Mihai Popșoi, the deputy prime minister and foreign minister of the Republic of Moldova, will sit down with Luke Coffey for a fireside chat about Moldova’s foreign policy and the Washington summit.
![Mihai Popoi delivers a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, on April 9, 2024. (Photo by John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2144462801.jpg?h=f5a0b26d&itok=GvwdRFVM)
![Gabrielius Landsbergis speaks during a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, on March 20, 2024. (Photo by Foto Olimpik/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2092450534.jpg?h=d376449f&itok=nHjUBP_6)
Please join Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis as he sits down with Senior Fellow Peter Rough on the eve of the Washington summit to discuss the prospects for Ukraine and the outlook for Lithuanian security. He will be introduced by Hudson Visiting Fellow Tomas Janeliūnas of Vilnius University.
![Gabrielius Landsbergis speaks during a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, on March 20, 2024. (Photo by Foto Olimpik/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2092450534.jpg?h=d376449f&itok=g8YJt3cj)
![An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member carrying a Palestinian flag in downtown Tehran on April 29, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/GettyImages-1240328504.jpg?h=790be497&itok=nkSrvUKN)
Former Congressman Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, will join Hudson to discuss what NATO militaries can learn from Israel’s fight against Iran-backed militias, the implications of a nuclear Iran for Europe, Tehran’s role in the rise of antisemitism in the West, and why aiding Israel is an important step to dismantle the China–Russia–Iran–North Korea axis.
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![An F-16 fighter jet takes off from Schleswig-Holstein, Jagel, on June 11, 2024. (Photo by Marcus Brandt/picture alliance via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2156486378.jpg?h=158e4a68&itok=7J1OEUdp)
Please join Senior Fellow Peter Rough as he welcomes Ambassador Bagger to Hudson for a discussion on Germany’s foreign and security outlook today.
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![Russian ships and jets take part in a military exercise on the coast of the Black Sea in Crimea on September 9, 2016. (Photo by Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/xTCGsvaQ_0.jpeg?h=984135a8&itok=1syI4VfB)
Join Hudson for a discussion with Romanian Foreign Minister Luminiţa-Teodora Odobescu on why Russia’s war against Ukraine and the broader contest for the future of the Black Sea region is a global inflection point with far-reaching ramifications. The West today faces a stark choice: disengage and watch the Black Sea radiate instability and embolden autocrats, or seize the opportunity to transform the region into a driver of future transatlantic prosperity and security.
![Russian ships and jets take part in a military exercise on the coast of the Black Sea in Crimea on September 9, 2016. (Photo by Vasily Maximov/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-06/xTCGsvaQ_0.jpeg?h=984135a8&itok=qZGsED9r)
![American and NATO flags are seen in Warsaw, Poland, on April 12, 2024. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-06/GettyImages-2147753787.jpg?h=0ffa0842&itok=_2Agjzxs)
Please join Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) for a discussion on NATO, Ukraine, the Black Sea region, and transatlantic relations just weeks before the Washington summit.
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![Admiral Rob Bauer, chair of the Military Committee of NATO, inspects the equipment of members of the German-French Brigade on July 10, 2023, in Gaiziunai, Lithuania. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1519023863.jpg?h=03e04110&itok=LZal328s)
NATO CMC Admiral Rob Bauer will discuss where the alliance needs to improve, the state of the Russia-Ukraine War and deterrence against Moscow, and the readiness of NATO’s defense industrial base.
![Admiral Rob Bauer, chair of the Military Committee of NATO, inspects the equipment of members of the German-French Brigade on July 10, 2023, in Gaiziunai, Lithuania. (Photo by Tim Ireland/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1519023863.jpg?h=03e04110&itok=m3IJEDln)
![Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the plenary session of Russian Energy Week 2022 on October 12, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1243910971.jpg?h=9f215c35&itok=ASgMVowA)
An expert panel will discuss how to dismantle Russia’s state capture networks in Europe.
![Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the plenary session of Russian Energy Week 2022 on October 12, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2024-05/GettyImages-1243910971.jpg?h=9f215c35&itok=FRQqvvB4)
![Demonstrators hold a Georgian flag during a protest against the “foreign agents” bill after the Georgian Parliament voted through the law on May 15, 2024, in Tbilisi, Georgia.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_600_x_400/public/2024-05/GettyImages-2153137528.jpg?h=fee4874d&itok=0PMkOCkM)