Europe in Crises: Implications for Peace Webinar

Summary

In the midst of tectonic and dangerous geopolitical change, Europe and the NATO nations are becoming warfare, not welfare states. This will be consolidated in this month’s NATO summit.

Caught between Trump shocks, the Ukraine War, and the Russia/China quasi alliance, Europe is in the midst of war, turmoil, and massive remilitarization. In addition to increasing the danger of war, massive cuts in social welfare spending provide openings for renewed European fascism. France, Germany, Britain, and Poland are pressing military collaboration and creation of a new European Union military within and potentially independent from NATO as anti-Russian fervor takes hold. Germany’s massive rearmament adds to anxiety in Paris as well as in Moscow. And incidents in the Baltic Sea could lead to escalating – even nuclear – conflict. To help our movements respond, MAPA and the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security (CPDCS) have organized this webinar featuring Kate Hudson and Reiner Braun.

Speakers

Kate Hudson is a British political activist and academic and vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and co-national secretary of Left Unity. She has served as CND chair, general secretary from 2010 to 2024, and as an officer of the Stop the War Coalition. She is a board member of the International Peace Bureau.

Reiner Braun is a German journalist, historian, and peace activist. Until recently, he was executive director of the International Peace Bureau and previously served as IPB president. Reiner has been involved in the peace movement since 1982. He worked for the Krefeld Appeal against nuclear weapons, was a founding member of the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility and was executive director of the German section of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms.