Club Online Zoom Event: New Europe and Finland in NATO, a discussion with the former Prime Minister of Finland, Professor Alexander Stubb

ONLINE ZOOM EVENT New Europe and Finland in NATO, a discussion with the former Prime Minister of Finland, Professor Alexander Stubb

SPEAKER ALEXANDER STUBB Thursday, April 7, 2022 4pm HKT on Zoom

The war in Ukraine changed Europe within weeks from international relations to international trade. The unprovoked attack on Ukraine by Russia united Europe, also with the United States in a manner not seen recently. One country where the public discussion about strategic military alliances changed within weeks was Finland, a Nordic country with an over 1,300 kilometres land border with Russia, which is also the eastern frontier of the European Union. What does the new Europe look like, especially in relation to the United States? Is NATO membership in the near-term future of Finland? What line the Kremlin won’t cross? Moderated by FCC First Vice President Hannamiina Tanninen.

Professor Alexander Stubb is a former Prime Minister of Finland, who currently works as the Director and Professor of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute. Prior to that he has also served as a Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Parliament of Finland, Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as the Vice-President of the European Investment Bank. He holds a PhD in the International Relations Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is a sub-9:30 Ironman.