If there is a time in decades to organize a meeting focused on geostrategy, war, defense and peace, it is this. The PAÍS proposes in two sessions (morning and afternoon) a forum – in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense of the Government of Spain and Thinking Heads, and the sponsorship of Escribano Mechanical Engineering, GMV, Hispasat, INDRA and Navantia – whose title, Dialogues for security, It is the map and the territory of a time where the only certainty is uncertainty.
On November 25, in auditorium 400 of the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid (access via Ronda de Atocha, 2), from 10:00 a.m. to 7:20 p.m., voices and reflections on the global situation will be heard. The closing, in the afternoon, will come through the words of Margarita Robles, Minister of Defense of Spain, who will speak about the situation of Spain before the new American Administration, the war in Ukraine or the Spanish position in the conflict in the Middle East .
In between, we will talk about the main axes that build security, in a planet where concerns accumulate. The expert, Carlos Martí Sempere, will open the talk with the focus on the change that the defense industry is experiencing, revolutionized with technology. Indra Group is a basic supplier of advanced defense material and what its executive president, Marc Murtra, says – in conversation with Daniel Toledo, deputy director of Five Days and chief business editor at El PAÍS―, we will have to listen to him carefully. The future is now. Like the new variables that affect a relationship between the United States and the European Union. Where until recently there were hardly any cracks; Now, with Trump’s new mandate, they can open. José María de Areilza Carvajal, director of the magazine Foreign Policywill point out those cracks and how deep they are.
The European Union has said it whenever it has had the chance: technological, energy and defensive sovereignty is essential. It is a consequence of fragmentation. So? How is European defense being organized?A short question that demands a long answer, in a round table moderated by Lucía Abellán, editor-in-chief of International at Morning Express. Accompanied, among others, by Ángel Escribano, president of Escribano Mechanical & Engineering; Colonel Alfonso Barea, member of the National Armament Directorate in the Spanish Ministry of Defense, or the professor of Political Science at the University of Valencia; Clara Portela.
The technological derivative on defense concludes with Miguel Ivorra; Lieutenant General of the Air Force and general director of Strategy and Innovation of the Defense Industry.
Politics, once again, comes into the story, this time with Amparo Valcarce, Secretary of State for Defens, with her intervention: Transformation and empowerment strategy for the Defense industry. That is, we have to find new ways and, perhaps, more budget. Companies in the sector are going to debate Autonomy. Guided by Javier García Ropero, journalist from Morning Express; the presidents of Airbus, Navantia, Francisco Javier Sánchez Segura; the CEO of Hispasat; Miguel Ángel Panduro; and the CEO of GMW, Jesús Serrano will speak on the matter, when some countries, including some of the Twenty-Seven, want to set their own agenda.
The afternoon is map time. Of course Ukraine, and to analyze it a renowned expert, María Sahuquillo, head of the Brussels delegation and former Moscow correspondent of Morning Express, who will talk with Ruth Ferrero, researcher attached to the Institute of International Studies of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). ; Mario Laborie Iglesias, colonel of the Army and deputy deputy director of Teaching Management IUGM-UNED and Carmen Claudín, senior associate researcher at CIDOB.
Gaza will also be in these dialogues as The epicenter of the conflict. Ignacio Álvarez-Osorio, professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the UCM, and Laurence Thieux, professor specializing in the Middle East, will talk with Andrea Rizzi, Global Affairs correspondent of El PAÍS, about one of the most complex conflicts that extends from the last century.
All this happens in one place, the Mediterranean, and Nasser Kamel, secretary general of the Union for the Mediterranean, will speak about it. In this world in redefinition, NATO, expectant after Trump’s triumph, has celebrated its 75th anniversary, evidencing its relevance and necessity, as Ana Santos Pinto, former president of the Southern Group of Experts of the Atlantic Alliance, will tell.
Finally, at the Reina Sofía, before the official closing, led by Margarita Robles, there will be time to explain a symbol of the horror of war: Guernica.
