International Seminar “European security architecture in times of geopolitical uncertainty: the French-Polish perspectives” | 8.12.2025

Le Centre d’Études Européennes de l’Université de Varsovie et le Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones de l’Université de Varsovie ont le plaisir de vous inviter au Séminaire international « European security architecture in times of geopolitical uncertainty: the French-Polish perspectives ».

📅 Date : 8 décembre 2025 (lundi), 15h30
📍 Lieu : Salle 1.110, Université de Varsovie, 55 rue Dobra
📝 INSCRIPTION : https://forms.gle/QHLwtW8QqABan2PU8

Ce séminaire portera sur les principaux défis auxquels l’architecture européenne de sécurité est aujourd’hui confrontée — des conséquences de l’agression russe contre l’Ukraine à l’évolution des relations transatlantiques, en passant par la nécessité croissante de renforcer la coopération régionale.
L’événement réunira des experts, des praticiens et des chercheurs spécialisés dans les questions de sécurité, de politique étrangère et de coopération européenne. Il offrira un espace d’analyse approfondie et de réflexion franco-polonaise sur l’avenir de la sécurité en Europe.

📄 Le programme complet de l’événement est disponible ici.

Nous vous invitons chaleureusement à y participer !

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The Centre for Europe of the University of Warsaw and the Centre for French Culture and Francophone Studies of the University of Warsaw invite you to the International Seminar “European security architecture in times of geopolitical uncertainty: the French-Polish perspectives”

📅 Date: 8 December 2025 (Monday), 15:30

📍Location: Room 1.110, University of Warsaw, Dobra 55

📝 REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/QHLwtW8QqABan2PU8

The seminar will address the key challenges facing Europe’s security architecture today — from the consequences of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and shifting transatlantic relations to the growing need for enhanced regional cooperation. The meeting will bring together experts, practitioners, and scholars in the fields of security, foreign policy, and European cooperation. Its aim is to provide space for an in-depth analysis and a Franco-Polish reflection on the future of Europe’s security.

📄 The full programme of the event is available here.

We warmly invite you to participate!

International Seminar

European security architecture in times of geopolitical uncertainty:

the Franco-Polish perspective
Warsaw, 8 December 2025

Place: room 1.110, Building of University of Warsaw, street Dobra 55
Centre for Europe University of Warsaw and Centre for French Culture and

Francophone Studies University of Warsaw (CCFEF)

in cooperation with:
the Embassy of France in Poland

15.30-15.45 Opening Speeches

Professor Zygmunt Lalak, Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Warsaw
HE Étienne de Poncins, Ambasador of France to Poland
Professor Kamil Zajączkowski, Director of the Centre for Europe, University of
Warsaw
dr Laurent Tatarenko, Director of the Centre for French Culture and Francophone
Studies (CCFEF)

Panel I
15.45-16.30

The war in Ukraine and Trump 2.0. does represent a “watershed
moment” and a “quantum leap” in EU security policy?
Chair: Prof. Kamil Zajączkowski (University of Warsaw)
Professor Samuel Faure, Associate Professor of Political Science (MCF in France),
UCLouvain Saint-Louis
Vice Admiral Hervé Bléjean, Chairman of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS)
2020-2023
Professor Zdzisław Śliwa, Institute of International Studies at the University of
Wrocław, former the Dean of the Baltic Defense College in Tartu, Estonia, a visiting
professor of the Latvian Defense Academy in Riga

16.30-16.45 Break

Panel II
16.45-18.15
Round-table

Chair: dr Beata Górka-Winter, The Faculty of Political Science and International
Studies University of Warsaw
Professor Artur Gruszczak, Chair in National Security and Chairman of the
Scientific Committee of Security Studies at the Jagiellonian University; Jagiellonian
University Rector’s Proxy for Cooperation with the Polish Special Operations
Command
Dr Jakub Olchowski, dyrektor Centrum Komptetencji Europejskich The Maria Curie-
Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin, analityk Instytutu Europy Środkowej
Łukasz Maślanka, Analyst in the Security and Defence Department, The Centre for
Eastern Studies (OSW)
Professor Samuel Faure, Associate Professor of Political Science (MCF in France),
UCLouvain Saint-Louis
Vice Admiral Hervé Bléjean, Chairman of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS)
2020-2023
Professor Zdzisław Śliwa, Institute of International Studies at the University of
Wrocław, former the Dean of the Baltic Defense College in Tartu, Estonia, a visiting
professor of the Latvian Defense Academy in Riga
Professor Kamil Zajączkowski, Director of the Centre for Europe, University of
Warsaw

Closing remarks
18.15-18.30
Prof. Kamil Zajączkowski
dr Laurent Tatarenko