Appeal to the Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the Ramstein coalition: Ukraine: We must not give up
2024-02-27 | Expert publications, Political initiativesAppeal to the Heads of State and Government of the member countries of the Ramstein coalition
Some European countries continue to offer only extremely modest bilateral military aid to Ukraine. Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg and France are among the most parsimonious members of the Ramstein coalition. They are thus taking advantage of the generosity of their allies, betraying their own past leadership and undermining the cohesion of Europe.
Bilateral military aid from Denmark (€3.5 billion), Norway (€3.6 billion) and the Netherlands (€2.5 billion) exceeds that from France, Italy and Spain. The United States contributes €44 billion, Germany €17 billion and the United Kingdom more than €6 billion.
The wartime economy called for by the French president in June 2022 has not materialised. While the production of Caesar self-propelled guns has been doubled, shell output is still no more than 3,000 rounds a month. This is despite the fact that shells are considered a priority, and that Ukraine requires hundreds of thousands of them monthly.
The volume of military aid from all the countries in the Ramstein coalition has reached its lowest level for many months, at €1 billion a month. Meanwhile, Russia has increased its defence budget by 68%, taking it to €106 billion. This compares with Ukraine’s budget of €43 billion.
Against this background, the debate between those who want to provide aid “for as long as it takes” and those who argue that Ukraine must receive whatever it needs “to win as quickly as possible” seems obsolete. We need to do both: provide arms in quantity and quality on the one hand, and over time on the other. And the countries that have so far been the most parsimonious should be the first to give a strong signal of long-term support in terms of quality and quantity.
Four squadrons of Rafales for Ukraine
Dassault Aviation is ready to double its production capacity, according to its CEO Eric Trappier. If this is true, France could rapidly provide Ukraine with two squadrons of Rafales (24 aircraft) under bilateral military aid and, with the agreement of the other EU member states, two additional squadrons under the European Peace Facility (EPF). Cost: around €5 billion.
80 Italian NH90 assault helicopters
It is a safe bet that Roberto Cingolani, CEO of Leonardo, would welcome the challenge of doubling production capacity for the NH90. This would enable Italy to quickly supply around forty assault helicopters and, again with the agreement of the other EU member states, around forty more under the EPF. Cost: around €3.5 billion.
Such strong signals would undoubtedly encourage other coalition countries to supply hundreds of Patriot, ATACMS, Taurus and Storm Shadow missiles, as well as 150 F-16s in addition to the 60 already planned.
As shown by the Budapest Memorandum, security guarantees are usually not worth the paper they are written on. Today, the only real guarantee of security we can offer Ukraine is to supply it with arms in sufficient quantity and quality. Tomorrow, “immediately after winning this war”, Ukraine will be, as President Biden has said, “part of NATO”.
Signatories
Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, U.S.A.
Eugene Fama, Nobel Prize in Economics (2013), Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, U.S.A.
Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law; Director, Ford Dorsey Masters in International Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, U.S.A.
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, U.K.
Rasa Jukneviciené, Vice-President of the European Parliament, former Defence Minister, Lithuania
Sandra Kalnieté, Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, former E.U. Commissioner, Latvia
David J. Kramer, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights & Labor
Andrius Kubilius, member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Lithuania
Vytautas Landsbergis, former President of the Republic of Lithuania
Roger Myerson, Nobel Prize in Economics (2007), Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
Andrei Piontkovsky, political scientist, former member of the Russian Opposition Coordination Council, Visiting Fellow at Hudson Institute, Russia/U.S.A.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016), Professor Emeritus, University of Strasbourg, France
Guy Verhofstadt, Member of the European Parliament, former Prime Minister of Belgium
Filippos Andrianos, Commodore (ret.), Hellenic Navy, Greece
Mart De Kruif, Lieutenant General (ret.), Netherlands
Jan Gavrila, Major General (ret.), Romania
Gert-Johannes Hagemann, Major General (ret.), German Army, Berlin, Germany
Sir Christopher Harper, Air Marshal (ret.), former Director General NATO International Military Staff, U.K.
Willy Herteleer, Admiral (ret.), former Belgian Chief of Defence
Jean Paul Perruche, General (ret.), former Director General of the European Union military staff, France
Marc Thys, Lieutenant General (ret.), former Vice Chief of Defense, Belgium
Pekka Toveri, Major General (ret.), Member of Parliament, Finland
Klaus Wittmann, Brigadier General (ret.), lecturer in contemporary history, Potsdam University, Germany
Jean-Christophe Abramovici, Professor, Director of the French and Comparative Literature Department at Sorbonne University, France
Gian Paolo Accardo, cofounder and Editor-in-Chief, Voxeurop, Belgium/France
Felix Ackermann, Professor for Public History, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Cengiz Aktar, Professor of Political Science, University of Athens
Sergey Alexeev, health economist, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia
Milagros Alvarez-Verdugo, Associate Professor of International Law & E.U. Law, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Vera Ammer, board member of Memorial International, Member of the Democratic Ukraine Initiative, Euskirchen, Germany
Katarina Ammitzboll, former Member of Parliament, Denmark
Guillaume Ancel, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.), writer, essayist, author of the blog Ne Pas Subir, France
Olga Andriewsky, Professor of History, Trent University, Canada
Anthony Arnull, Emeritus Professor of European Law, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Martin Aust, Professor of Eastern European History, Chairman of the Association of Eastern European Historians, University of Bonn, Germany
Petras Austrevicius, Member of the European Parliament, Lithuania
Nicolas Auzanneau, translator, France/Belgium
Serge Avedikian, actor and director, France
Filiz Tutku Aydın, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, University of Ankara, Turkey
Audronius Ažubalis, Member of Parliament, deputy chair of the European Affairs Committee, former Foreign Affairs Minister, Lithuania
Klaus Bachmann, Professor of social sciences, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland
Licia Bagini, Senior Lecturer in Italian Language and Civilisation, Vice Dean International Relations, Université de Poitiers, France
Jars Balan, Director, Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
Margarita M. Balmaceda, Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, U.S.A.
Marta Barandiy, President, Promote Ukraine, Brussels, Belgium
Christine Baron, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Poitiers, France
Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, former Director of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, founding member of the Canadian Group for Democracy in Ukraine, Canada
Claudia Basta, Senior Scientist, Utrecht University Fellow, treasurer of Science for Democracy, Netherlands
Gilles Bataillon, sociologist, Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
Pierre Bayard, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 8, France
Stefan Bayer, Professor for Military and Environmental Economics, German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies (GIDS), Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany
Daniel. T. Beauvois, former Director of the Centre for French Civilisation, University of Warsaw, France
Kris Beckers, Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Belgium
Mark R. Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, Princeton University, U.S.A.
Germà Bel, Professor of Economics at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Ondřej Benešík, Member of Parliament, Czech Republic
Martine Benoit, Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Lille, France
Marco Bentivogli, industry and labour innovation policy expert, Coordinator of “Base Italia”
Gérard Bensussan, philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Strasbourg, France
Alberto Berretti, Lecturer, Mathematical Analysis, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Olga Bertelsen, Associate Professor of Global Security and Intelligence, Tiffin University, U.S.A.
Dietrich Beyrau, Professor Emeritus, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
Martin Bialecki, Editor-in-Chief, Internationale Politik (IP), Germany
Florin Bilbiie, Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Annick Bilobran-Karmazyn, President of ADVULE, France
Volodymyr Bilotkach, Associate Professor in Aviation Management, Purdue University, co Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Air Transport Management, U.S.A.
Steven Blockmans, Director of Research at CEPS, Senior Fellow at ICDS (Tallinn), Editor-in-Chief of the European Foreign Affairs Review, Professor, College of Europe, Belgium
Thomas Boccon-Gibod, Lecturer in Philosophy of politics, law and standards, Grenoble Alpes University, France
Katrin Boeckh, Professor for the History of Eastern Europe, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies Regensburg, LMU Munich, Germany
Giovanni Boggero, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Turin, Italy
Vassilios Bogiatzis, research and teaching Associate, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
Etienne Boillet, Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies, University of Poitiers, France
Etienne Boisserie, Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary Central Europe, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France
Michele Boldrin, Professor of Economics in Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Department of Economics, Washington University in Saint-Louis, U.S.A.
Denys Bondar, Associate Professor, Tulane University, U.S.A.
Igor Boni, President, Radicali Italiani
Marie-Anne Bonucci, Professor of Contemporary History, Université de Paris 8, France
Dominique Bourg, Honorary Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Alain Bourges, videographer, writer, retired senior art teacher, Ecole Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne, Rennes, France
Jean-Loup Bourget, Emeritus Professor of film studies, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
John Bowis, former Member of the European Parliament and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Yordan Bozhilov, President of the Sofia Security Forum, former Deputy Minister of Defense of Bulgaria
Sarah Brajbart-Zajtman, philosopher, journalist, former Director of “Regards”, Belgium
Alberto Bramati, Associate Professor, French Linguistics, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Gastone Breccia, military historian, Researcher at University of Pavia, Italy
Thomas Bremer, Emeritus Professor of Eastern Christian Studies, University of Münster, Germany
Michel Briand, Professor Emeritus of classics, University of Poitiers, France
Giovanna Brogi, Emeritus Professor, Milan University, Italy
Mariana Budjeryn, Senior Research Associate, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Project on Managing the Atom, U.S.A.
Giovanni Caggiano, Professor of Economics and Management, University of Padua, Italy
Daniela Caglioti, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Michel Caillouët, former Ambassador of the European Union, President of the Union of European Federalists, France
Marc Capelle, journalist & author, former Director of the ESJ Lille School of Journalism, France
Marco Cappato, former Member of the European Parliament, Italy
Paulo Casaca, former Member of the Portuguese Parliament and of the European Parliament
Arnaud Castaignet, Vice-President of a European technology company, France
Francesco Matteo Cataluccio, writer and essayist, Italy
Giovanni Catelli, writer, poet, Eastjournal correspondent, Italy
Giuliano Cazzola, journalist, entrepreneur, former Member of Parliament and former trade unionist, Italy
Lorenzo Ceva Valla, photographer and Director, Milan, Italy
Fabien Chevalier, Honorary Chairman of Sauvons l’Europe, national board member of the European Movement, France
Igor Chocholak, Head of the Association of Ukrainians in Belgium
Walter Clemens, Associate, Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University, U.S.A.
Daniel Coche, writer-director-producer, former Lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, France
Mélodie Combot, Associate Professor, Law Faculty, Université d’Amiens, France
John Connelly, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
Jacques Crémer, Professor of economics, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Georges Dallemagne, Member of Parliament, Belgium
Andriy Danylenko, Professor of Russian and Slavic Linguistics, Pace University, U.S.A.
Pierre d’Argent, Professor of International Law, University of Louvain, member of the Institute of International Law, Belgium
Annie Daubenton, journalist, essayist and consultant, specialising in Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Ukraine), France
Françoise Daucé, Director of the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies (CERCEC / EHESS), France
Franziska Davies, Fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam, Germany
Bernard De Backer, sociologist, Author, Brussels, Belgium
Martine de Gaudemar, philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris Nanterre, France
Isabelle de Mecquenem, Philosophy teacher and member of the Conseil des sages de laïcité of the French Ministry of Education
Gérard Deprez, Minister of State, Belgium
Tatyana Deryugina, Associate Professor and Shebik Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois, U.S.A.
Orest Deychakiwsky, Co-chair, Transatlantic Task Force for Ukraine, former senior policy advisor, U.S. Helsinki Commission, U.S.A.
Christian Dietrich, former Member of the Anti-Communist Resistance in Germany, Protestant pastor, Erfurt, Germany
Massimiliano Di Pasquale, research associate at the Gino Germani Institute of Social Sciences and Strategic Studies and Head of the Ukraine Observatory (Rome), Italy
Steffen Dobbert, journalist, author of „Ukraine verstehen“, Klett-Cotta-Verlag, Berlin, Germany
Stéphane Dorin, Professor of Sociology, University of Limoges, France
Françoise Dubor, Professor of literature and theatre studies at the University of Poitiers, France
Olivier Dupuis, former Member of the European Parliament, Belgium/Italy
Emmanuel Dupuy, President of the Institute for Prospective and Security in Europe (IPSE), France
Marc Elie, Research Fellow at the CNRS, deputy director of the Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies – Cercec, France
Michel Eltchaninoff, philosopher, journalist and essayist, Editor-in-Chief of Philosophie magazine, France
Nino Evgenidze, Executive Director at the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC), Georgia
Martin Exner, Member of Parliament, Czech Republic
Jean-Louis Fabiani, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Vienna, Member of Academia Europaea, France/Austria
Marta Farion, President, Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America, U.S.A.
Penelope Faulkner, Vice-president of Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam, France
Tomáš Fiala, Senator, Czech Republic
Jan Fidrmuc, Professor, IESEG School of Management, Université of Lille, France
Rory Finnin, Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies, Fellow, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Joerg Forbrig, Managing Director, Transatlantic Trusts, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Germany
Alexandre François, CNRS Scholar in linguistics, France
Renée Fregosi, philosopher, Director of Research in political science, University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
Daniel Friedmann, sociologist, film-maker, CNRS-EHESS, France
Reinhard Frötschner, Assistant Editor at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg, Germany
Mischa Gabowitsch, Lise Meitner Fellow, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna, Austria
Philippe Gabriel, Senior Lecturer in education and training, LIRDEF, Avignon Université, France
Natalia Gamalova, Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Lyon 3, France
Nicolas Gavoille, Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia
Michael Gentile, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway
Aleksandar Georgiev, Colonel (ret.), Bulgaria
Catherine Gery, Professor of Russian literature and cinema at Inalco, Co-director of the Europes-Eurasia Research Centre (CREE), France
Fabio Ghironi, Paul F. Glaser Professor of Economics, University of Washington, U.S.A.
Anke Giesen, board member of Memorial International and Memorial Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
Josip Glaurdić, Professor, head of the Institute of Political Science, University of Luxembourg
Sébastien Gobert, journalist, France/Ukraine
Christian Godin, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France
Odile Goerg, Emeritus Professor of the History of Contemporary Africa, Université Paris Cité, France
Bernard Golse, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, Professor at Université Paris V-René Descartes, founder of the Institut Contemporain de l’Enfance, France
Paul Gragl, Professor of European Law, University of Graz, Austria
Iegor Gran, writer, France
Michael Grinfeld, Reader, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, U.K.
Paul Grod, President of the Ukrainian World Congress, U.S.A.
Iulian Groza, Executive Director, Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE), Moldova
Yaryna Grusha, writer, translator, Adjunct Professor, Università degli Studi of Milan, Italy
Danilo Guaitoli, clinical assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University, U.S.A.
Raphaëlle Guidée, Senior Lecturer, IUF / University of Poitiers, France
Andrea Gullotta, Professor, University of Palermo, Italy
Dóra Győrffy, Professor of Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Guy Haarscher, philosopher, Professor Emeritus, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Honorary Professor, College of Europe, Belgium
Daniel S. Hamilton, President, Transatlantic Leadership Network, U.S.A.
Kate Hansen Bundt, Secretary General, Norwegian Atlantic Committee, Norway
Atte Harjanne, Member of Parliament, Finland
Mark Harrison, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, U.K.
Patrick Hassenteufel, Professor of Political Science at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Researcher at CESDIP/CNRS, France
Pavel Havlicek, Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), Czech Republic
Nicolas Hayoz, Professor, European and Slavic Studies, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Nathalie Heinich, sociologist, Director of Research at the CNRS, France
Richard Herzinger, columnist, Berlin, Germany
Marek Hilšer, Senator, Czech Republic
Markéta Hodouskova, President of the Czech-In association and the Kino Visegrad association for the promotion of Central Europe, France
Kate Holland, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, Canada
Marie Holzman, Sinologist, President of Solidarité Chine, France
Ulrich Huygevelde, Coordinator of the Géopolis photojournalism centre in Brussels and of the Euradio editorial team, Belgium
Olena Ivus, Associate Professor and E. Marie Shantz fellow of Business, Economics, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada
Hubertus Jahn, Professor Emeritus of the History of Russia and the Caucasus, University of Cambridge, Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge, U.K.
Rune Jansen Hagen, Professor of Economics, University of Bergen, Norway
Steven Jobbitt, Associate Professor of Russian and East European History, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada
Luba Jurgenson, writer, translator, Professor of Russian literature at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Martin Kahanec, Professor, Economics, Business and Management Sciences, Academia Europaea, Director, The Shattuck Center for Human Rights, Austria
Karl-Heinz Kamp, former special Advisor, German Ministry of Defence, Germany
Ewa Karwowski, Lecturer in Development Economics, King’s College London, U.K.
Christian Kaunert, Professor of International Security Policy, Dublin City University and University of South Wales
Isabelle Kersimon, Honorary President of the Institut de Recherche et d’Etudes sur les Radicalités (Inrer), France
Anita Khachaturova, Doctoral Researcher in political science, Cevipol, ULB, Belgium
Doug Klain, Non-resident Fellow, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council, U.S.A.
Bohdan Klid, Research Associate, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
Nikolai Klimeniouk, journalist and head of the Initiative Quorum Program at the NGO European Exchange, Berlin, Germany
Aleksandr Ključnikov, Professor of Enterprise economics and management, European Centre for Business Research, Pan-European University, Czech Republic
Saskia Kluit, Senator, Netherlands
Wolfgang Koeth, Senior Lecturer, European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, Netherlands
Zenon E. Kohut, Professor Emeritus, Classics and Religion, and former director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Miroslav Kollár, former Member of Parliament, Slovakia
Ann Komaromi, Professor, Centre for Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Victoria College Fellow, University of Toronto, Canada
Oskar Kowalewski, Professor of Finance, IESEG School of Management, France
Oksana Kozlova, Lecturer in Russian, Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Leo Krasnozhon, Assistant Professor of Economics, Loyola University New Orleans, U.S.A.
Joachim Krause, Professor Emeritus University of Kiel, Director Emeritus Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (ISPK), Germany
Eerik-Niiles Kross, Member of Parliament, former director of intelligence, Estonia
Olha Krupa, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Seattle University, U.S.A.
Jacek Kucharczyk, President of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Poland
Marek Kuchciński, Member of Parliament, Poland
Lorenz Kueng, Associate Professor, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Justine Lacroix, Professor, Department of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Political Theory, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Bertrand Lambolez, Professor of Neuroscience, Director of research INSERM, Vice-President of the NPO “Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur Liberté et la Nôtre”, France
Vladyslav Lanovoy, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Laval University, Canada
Eric Lecerf, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Université Paris VIII, France
Sonia Le Gouriellec, Associate Professor in Political Sciences, Lille catholic University, France
Atis Lejins, former Member of Parliament, founder of the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Latvia
Sarah Leonard, Professor of International Security, University of South Wales, U.K.
Mathieu Lericq, Researcher in Film Studies, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France
Rūta Liepiņa, translator, Belgium
Sylvie Lindeperg, Professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and emeritus member of the Institut Universitaire de France
Frédérique Longuet Marx, Anthropologist, Associate Member of CETOBAC (EHESS), France
Mihhail Lotman, Emeritus Professor, Tallinn University, Research Professor, University of Tartu, former Member of Parliament, Estonia
Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Associate Professor of Economics, director of Graduate Studies, Indiana University, U.S.A.
Joep Lustenhouwer, Assistant Professor, economics, Heidelberg University, Germany
Neil MacFarlane, Professor Emeritus, Oxford University, U.K.
Jaak Madison, Member of the European Parliament, Estonia
Pandeli Majko, former Prime Minister of Albania
Martin Malek, Political Scientist, author & editor of books, Vienna, Austria
Daria Malova, Professor of Political Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Silvja Manzi, former secretary of Radicali Italiani
Matteo Marchesini, poet, storyteller and literary critic, Italy
Damien Marguet, Associate Professor, Co-Head of Film Studies Department, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France
Murman Margvelashvili, Associate Professor and director of Energy and Sustainability Institute at ISU, Georgia
Jean Mariani, Emeritus Professor, Sorbonne Université Paris, France
Marie Martin, Senior Lecturer in film studies, University of Poitiers, France
Eric Marty, writer, Professor Emeritus, University of Paris, France
Alain Maskens, physician, oncologist, founder and former medical coordinator of the European Organization for Cooperation in Cancer Prevention Studies (ECP), Belgium
Marie-Claude Maurel, Director of Studies at EHESS, Centre d’Études Russe, Caucasien et Centre-Européen, France
Frédéric Mauro, Associate Researcher at IRIS Paris, lawyer at the Brussels bar, Belgium
Markus Meckel, former Foreign Minister and Member of the Bundestag, former Vice-President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Germany
Karen Melchior, Member of the European Parliament, Denmark
Marc-Emmanuel Mélon, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Liège, Belgium
Arnaud Mercier, Professor of Information and Communications, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France
Alexandre Met Domestici, Senior Lecturer in European Law and Public Law, Jean Monnet Chair, Sciences-Po Aix-en-Provence, France
Olaf Mertelsmann, Professor of East European History, University of Tartu, Estonia
Georg Milbradt, Professor, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Rūta Miliūtė, Member of Parliament, Lithuania
Ariane Mnouchkine, director, founder, Théâtre du Soleil, France
Johanna Möhring, Associate Researcher, Centre Thucydide, Paris Panthéon Assas, and associate fellow, CASSIS, University of Bonn, Germany
Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, Professor of history and geography and researcher at the Institut Français de Géopolitique (University of Paris VIII), France
Emmanuel Morucci, Chairman of CECI (Cercle Europe Citoyennetés et Identités), France
Oleksandra Moskalenko, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.
Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark, U.S.A.
Jan Musekamp, Visiting Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Vlad Mykhnenko, Associate Professor of Sustainable Urban Development, research fellow, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, U.K.
Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, Anthropologist, Researcher at EHESS, Centre Edgar Morin, France
Norman M. Naimark, McDonnell Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, U.S.A.
Harry Nedelcu, Director of Policy and Business Development, Rasmussen Global, Brussels, Belgium
Isabelle Négrier, President and founder of the COEUR association, Citizen Open European for Ukraine Roofs, France
James Nixey, Director, Russia-Eurasia and Europe Programmes, Chatham House, London, U.K.
Lydia Obolensky, Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Belgium
Ong Thong Hoeung, writer, survivor of the Khmer Rouge re-education camps, Belgium/Cambodia
Mitchell A. Orenstein, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute, U.S.A.
Oxana Pachlovska, Professor, Ukrainian Language, Linguistics, and Literature, Fundamentals of Slavic Interculture, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
Doris Pack, President of EPP Women, president of the Robert Schuman Institute, former member of the European Parliament and the Bundestag, Germany
Carmelo Palma, journalist, Director of Strade-on-line, Italy
Oleksandr Pankieiev, Editor-in-chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Taline Papazian, Lecturer, Sciences Po Aix, France
Leopoldo Papi, publisher, journalist and editor of Public Policy, Italy
Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, Professor of International Relations, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Italy
Lyudmila Parts, Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University, Canada
Žygimantas Pavilionis, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament
Anne-Marie Pelletier, Emeritus Professor of Literature, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Marco Perduca, former Senator, Italy
Maria Perrotta Berlin, Assistant Professor, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Hans-Christian Petersen, historian, Professor, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Franck Petiteville, Professor of Political Science, Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, France
Tomas Petricek, former Foreign Affairs Minister, Senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations, Prague, Czech Republic
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Professor of History, Northwestern University, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Associate, U.S.A.
Jan Pieklo, Polish Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019)
Steven Pifer, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Steven Pinker, Professor, Cognitive Psychology, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Sylvie Plane, Professor Emeritus, Sorbonne University, France
Andrzej Podraza, Professor, Political Science, Head of the Department of International Relations and Security, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Alla Poedie, President of the Franco-Ukrainian Business Club, geopolitical analyst, columnist, France/Ukraine
Alain Policar, Associate Researcher at Cevipof (Sciences Po), France
Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University, U.S.A.
Maria Popova, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University, scientific co-director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal, Canada
Elena Poptodorova, Vice President of the Atlantic Club of Bulgaria, former Ambassador to the U.S., former member of Parliament
Perrine Poupin, Associate Research Professor at CNRS, Ambiances Architectures Urbanités Laboratory, Grenoble, France
Christophe Prochasson, historian, Director of studies at EHESS, France
Wojciech Przybylski, Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Insight and chairman of Res Publica Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Paolo Puppa, Professor (ret.), University of Venice, academic playwright and writer, Italy
Eva Quistorp, Theologian, political scientist and writer, former member of the European Parliament, Germany
Alain Rabatel, Emeritus Professor of Language Sciences, University of Lyon, France
Waleria Radziejowska-Hahn, member of the Program Board of Lew Kopelew Forum Cologne, Germany
Yasha Reibman, Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Italy
Iwona Reichardt, board member, Jan Nowak Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe
(KEW), Kraków, Poland
Thijs Reuten, Member of the European Parliament, Netherlands
Marie-Pierre Rey, historian and political scientist, professor of Russian and Soviet history, University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Roberto Ricciuti, Associate Professor of Economic Policy, University of Verona, Italy
Christina Riek, translator, board member of Memorial Deutschland
Christian Rocca, Linkiesta editorial Director, Italy
Maren Röger, Director, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Professor of History, University of Leipzig, Germany
Stefan Rohdewald, Professor, Head of the Chair of East and Southeast European History, University of Leipzig, Germany
Jesper Roine, Deputy Director, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Professor of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Gerard Roland, Professor of Economics and of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Per Anders Rudling, Associate Professor of History, Lund University, Sweden
Marie-Claude San Juan, Author and columnist, France
Dany Savelli, Lecturer in Russian Studies, Toulouse – Jean Jaurès University, France
Sebastian Schäfer, Member of the Bundestag, Germany
Stefanie Schiffer, Director, European Exchange, Germany
Frank Schimmelfennig, Professor, head of the Chair of European Politics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Oxana Schmies, historian, Political Analyst, Berlin, Germany
Benjamin L. Schmitt, Senior Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Associate, Harvard-Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, U.S.A.
Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja, researcher, Sigmund Freud University of Vienna, Austria
Manfred Schruba, Associate Professor, Studies in Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy
Steven Seegel, Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
Anton Shekhovtsov, Director, Centre for Democratic Integrity, Austria
Myroslav Shkandrij, Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
Ilya Shpitser, John C. Malone Associate Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.
Ivan Simic, Assistant Professor, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Andras Simonyi, Visiting Scholar, George Washington University, former Hungarian Ambassador to NATO, Hungary
Olga Slivko, Assistant Professor in Information Systems, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands
Stanley R. Sloan, former Senior Specialist in International Security Policy, U.S. Congressional Research Service, U.S.A.
Malgorzata Smorag-Goldberg, Professor of Polish Studies at the Slavic Studies Department of Sorbonne Université, France
Michael Sohlman, former Chair of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Raphaël Spina, historian, Ecole de l’Air et de l’Espace, France
Antonio Stango, Lecturer of International Organisations and Human Rights, Rome Link Campus University, Italy
Lorenzo Strik-Lievers, historian, former Member of Parliament, Italy
Wally Struys, Professor Emeritus, defence economist, Royal Military Academy, Belgium
former Commander of the multinational HQ Battalion of Eurocorps, Spain
Romas Svedas, Associate Professor of Practice, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Frank Sysyn, Professor of History, Classics and Religion, and Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta
Oleksandr Talavera, Professor of Financial Economics, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Ian Colin Taylor, former Member of Parliament, U.K.
William B. Taylor, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Françoise Thom, historian and Sovietologist, Honorary Lecturer in contemporary history at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France
Guy Thuillier, Senior Lecturer in Geography and Geopolitics, University of Toulouse, France
Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome, Italy
Valentin Tonchev, Member of Parliament, Bulgaria
Florian Trauner, Jean Monnet Chair, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium
Tytti Tuppurainen, Member of Parliament, leader of the Soc-Dem. Parliamentary Group, former minister for European Affairs, Finland
Frank Umbach, Head of Research at the European Cluster for Climate, Energy and Resource Security, University of Bonn, Germany
Andreas Umland, Analyst, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies, Sweden
Romualdas Vaitkus, Member of Parliament, Lithuania
Cédric Van Appelghem, Senior Lecturer, Management Sciences, Université Paris Saclay, France
Maïrbek Vatchagaev, Chechen historian and political analyst of the North Caucasus at the Jamestown Foundation, co-editor of the journal “Caucasus Survey”
Jurgis Vedrickas, policy analyst, Lithuania
Sofia Ventura, Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy
Julien Vercueil, Professor of post-soviet and Russian economics, National Institute of Oriental Studies (Inalco), Paris, France
Anna Veselovska, Researcher, Tum School of Computation, Information and Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Lina Vidauskyte, Professor at the Military Academy of Lithuania
Guido Vitiello, writer, columnist, associate professor of Cinema and Visual Culture at La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
Bohdan Vitvitsky, former U.S. Diplomat, former Special Advisor to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, former U.S. Federal Prosecutor
Caroline von Gall, Junior Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Deutsche Sacharow Society, Germany
Barbara von Ow-Freytag, journalist, Political Scientist, expert for civil society developments in Eastern Europe, Russia & Central Asia, Germany
Joachim von Puttkamer, Professor of Eastern European History, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Germany
Alexa von Winning, Assistant Professor, Tübingen University, Germany
Hans-Joachim Voth, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ricarda Vulpius, Professor for East European History, Münster University, Germany
Lukáš Wagenknecht, Senator, Czech Republic
Izabela Wagner, Professor of anthropology and sociology of migration at Paris-City University, Researcher at URMIS, Fellow at the French Institute for Migration Studies, France
Sir Graham Watson, Professor of E.U. Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, former Chair of the ALDE parliamentary Group in the European Parliament, U.K.
Nicolas Weill-Parot, Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France
John Hubbel Weiss, Emeritus Associate Professor of history, former director, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, U.S.A.
Nicolas Werth, Emeritus Research Director, CNRS, Chairman of Mémorial-France
Rolland Westreich, writer, Belgium
Sarah Whitmore, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Oxford Brookes University, U.K.
Bernd Wieser, Professor, University of Graz, Austria
Anna Wieslander, Chair of the Board, Institute for Security and Development Policy
(ISDP), Stockholm, Sweden
Martina Winkler, Professor of history at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
Alexander Wöll, Professor of Central European Literatures and Cultures, Potsdam University, Chair of the German Association of Ukrainian Studies (DAU), Germany
Cornelia Woll, Professor, President, Hertie School, University of Governance, Berlin, Germany
George Woloshyn, former Associate Director of the U.S. Federal Emergency
Management Agency and former Director of the Office of Federal Investigation at OPM, U.S.A.
Patrick Worms, President, International Union of Agroforestry, Belgium
Piotr J. Wróbel, Professor, Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Irina Wutsdorff, Professor, Chair of Slavic Studies, University of Münster, Germany
Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, Canada
Helge Ytterøy, President, European Centre-Right LGBT+ Alliance, Norway
Pavel Žáček, Member of Parliament, Chairman of the Security Committee, Czech Republic
Andy Zapechelnyuk, Professor of Economics, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Michal Zator, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
Paul Zawadzki, Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Andriy Zayarnyuk, Professor, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Misha Zelinsky, Fulbright Scholar, national security expert, journalist, author, Australia
Miroslav Žiak, former Member of Parliament, Slovakia
Anna Zielinska, Lecturer in philosophy, University of Lorraine and Science Po Paris/Nancy, France
Emanuelis Zingeris, Member of Parliament, Deputy Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Lithuania
Piotr Zoch, Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw and FAME | GRAPE, Poland
Othar Zourabichvili, President of the Georgian Association in France
Artūras Žukauskas, Member of Parliament, Chair of the Committee on Education and Science, Professor, former Rector of Vilnius University, Lithuania
Michael Zürn, Professor of International Relations, Social Science Research Centre, Free University Berlin, Germany
Originally published on Lithuania Tribune.