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European Council Has Fewer Success Stories Than Failures
28 August 2026
Our subscribers connect live with opinion leaders to discuss CEE’s economic security in light of new US sanctions.
On 24 August US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced what he described as an economic ‘D-Day’ against Tehran, warning that it could ‘blow up’ the world’s financial system. China has signalled that it will protect the interests of its companies if they become targets of unilateral US sanctions.
Where does Europe, once an important actor in sanctions against Tehran, fit into this system of great-power economic coercion? What strategy can it pursue amid intensifying US–China rivalry, including over Iran?
As Europe prepares its 2026 Security Strategy, it is worth examining what the emerging security architecture means for Europe and CEE in particular.
The discussion will feature Tomasz Kasprowicz and Bohdan Bernatskyi.
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Key discussion points:
- What does the new global security architecture mean for CEE, whose economies are exposed to both transatlantic and Chinese economic power?
- What should EU economic security mean within a new European security strategy?
- Can Europe build a credible economic security strategy without making political choices about allies, rivals and strategic dependencies?
- How can the EU combine openness to trade and investment with protection against coercion, technology leakage and critical supply-chain dependencies?
- How should CEE countries contribute to a European approach that treats economic policy as part of security policy?
Speakers:
Bohdan Bernatskyi – Future of Ukraine Fellow at Visegrad Insight and Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Vilnius University. His professional expertise lies in sanctions and transitional justice, including authoring reforms to Ukraine’s sanctions infrastructure aimed at aligning it with EU best practices.
Tomasz Kasprowicz – Since 2023, Editor-in-Chief of Res Publica Nowa; a member of its editorial team since 2008. PhD in Finance, specialising in risk management, from Southern Illinois University. An academic lecturer with experience across three continents. Since 2025, he has been an Executive MBA Programme Director at Krakowska Szkoła Biznesu. Columnist contributing to national and regional press. Since 2008, an entrepreneur in the IT industry.
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