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NATO in crisis: time to overcome the war machine

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NATO Peace Counter Summits – Online

  • Pre-Summit: July 3, 7–9pm CEST
  • Post-Summit: July 11, 3-5pm CEST

As NATO faces its deepest ever crisis, this counter-summit will focus on the impact of the dramatically changing global situation, and the opportunities this presents for change. The decades-long ideological and political relationship between Europe and the USA is changing beyond all recognition. The US pursues brutal unilateral dominance with vassal status for Europe. Europe pursues greater independence based on insane levels of militarism to the point of risking a nuclear war. The situation is unsustainable and dangerous in the extreme

This new situation presents the peace movement with new challenges and new opportunities. Can NATO be dealt a death blow? What will come in its place? Can we overcome the warmongering ideology that is increasingly dominating our societies? How can we build an alternative security framework that meets people’s needs and guarantees real security for all?

This ‘No to War – No to NATO network’ counter-summit will explore these questions, develop an analysis of NATO in the rapidly changing situation, and look at the implications for our movements. Please join us.

Pre-Summit Session

July 3, 2025 | 7pm – 9pm CEST | Online

Part 1: US global strategy – what it means for NATO

Opening and welcome by the No to NATO Network and greetings from our Turkish Partners with update on their events

  • NN Turkish speaker
  • US global strategy under Trump: back to universal hegemony? Is war a ‘way out’ for capitalism’s multi-crisis? Anu Chenoy
  • The new US-Europe relationship: subordination or emancipation? Europe’s crisis, the new militarism and new imperialism and opportunities for a new peace architecture. Reiner Braun

Moderator: Kristine Karch

Part 2: The new international situation: how the elites are reacting

How far will European ‘leaders’ go with rearmament and the militarisation of our societies, our industry, our education systems? What political and economic reorganisation will they pursue? What will result from their ‘war-readiness ideology’ and their construction of China and Russia as enemy stereotypes?

Speakers: Michael von der Schulenburg (MEP), Laetitia Planche (France), NN Spain invited, Oleg Bodrow Russia

Moderator: Kate Hudson (Great Britain)

 

Post-Summit Session

July 11, 2025 | 3pm – 5pm CEST | Online

What does the NATO summit mean for our vision and our movement? How do we build alternatives to NATO and war in the new context?

Our vision: common security through cooperation; disarmament and peace through coalition building (scene setting with Joseph Gerson, USA and Walden Bello, Philippines (invited)

Our movement: how we come together in solidarity, expand our alliances, and work to overcome the NATO war machine

Discussion with NN Turkey, Ulla Klötzer Finland, Ann Wright USA, Sean Conner IPB, Pablo Ruiz Chile, Francis Lee, South Korea

Moderators: Ludo de Brabander (Belgium) and Annachiara Canetta, Netherland

Concluding words and presentation of the declaration about No to NATO and forthcoming events by Ludo and Annachiara.

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