One Year of War: Europe at a Turning Point

Tessa Szyszkowitz in conversation with Cathrin Kahlweit
One Year of War: Europe at a Turning Point

Putin's aggression against Ukraine is forcing the EU to take diplomatic and military action.
Does Europe need a new policy of détente? Or a European army?

War has been raging in Europe for a year now. In Ukraine, soldiers and civilians are dying under the attacks of the Russian army. The war is also changing Europe's neighbouring countries - Austria and Germany in particular. Have governments and populations in Austria and Germany also changed their minds and moved away from the image of the cheap, reliable gas supplier in the east? Has Putin's attack brought the EU states closer together? Is the war making Ukraine an increasingly secure Western state on the road to the EU? Or, as Cathrin Kahlweit will discuss with Tessa Szyszkowitz, are there signs of fatigue on the front and in the European state chancelleries? The pressure for a ceasefire is increasing, possibly with territorial compromises. The commitment to Ukraine in Europe is not weakening. But is this militarising or pacifying the European Union?

Cathrin Kahlweit, currently a correspondent for Austria, Central and Eastern Europe at the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Vienna. Since joining the SZ in 1989, Kahlweit has worked tirelessly as a correspondent and reporter between the Danube and the Donbass. She analyses Europe's war and peace in commentaries and analyses in the press and on television.

Tessa Szyszkowitz is a journalist and author, based in London since 2010. Before that, she was a correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Jerusalem. She writes regularly for Falter, profil & Cicero, is curator of the Philoxenia series at the Kreiskyforum and a Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.