In her first contribution, panelist Ljudmyla Melnyk pays tribute to Egon Bahr's way of thinking: "He thought out of the box." However, she questions the extent to which Bahr's thought processes have evolved sufficiently to provide answers to the current situation. "Sometimes we think that Egon Bahr's approach can apply forever," she says. However, times have changed. Now, her wish is: "Don't just focus on change through rapprochement, but also analyze social developments in the countries." -ls

Katrin Rulle

Now discussing "War: New Consequences for Security and Peace in and around Europe:”

• Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luxembourg
• Richard R. Burt, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
• Rüdiger Lüdeking, former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OSCE in Vienna
• Ljudmyla Melnyk, Institut fuer Europaeische Politik
• Gwendolyn Sasse, Center for Eastern European and International Studies
  

Reinhard Krumm, Head of the Baltic States Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation is moderating the discussion. -fw

Katrin Rulle

Putin has miscalculated several times, says Jean Asselborn. "He wanted to mock NATO, but he strengthened it. He wanted to conquer Ukraine and is now stuck for the foreseeable future. He didn't understand that smartphone images travel around the world in a second." And now he sees that Russians are also unwilling to accept the bombings, the dead women and children, the war itself. -mb

Katrin Rulle