Current global political developments bring significant challenges for Europe. The question of power and morality is essentially timeless and has always existed, but it gains entirely new urgency under today’s global political upheavals. In the debates connected with this, the term “strategic agency” is often mentioned without clearly defining what it actually means.

How can Europe act in a secure, just, and competitive way over the long term without betraying its values? Which instruments, alliances, and governance models strengthen Europe’s role in a multipolar world? We want to discuss these and other questions to derive concrete courses of action, ethical guidelines, and practical implementation strategies. The focus here is on security policy in the sense of a ‘comprehensive security’ approach, which not only addresses traditional security and defense policy, but also takes topics like trade and technology policy, digital sovereignty, as well as foreign and development policy into account.