The Chatham House London Conference 2026 has begun in Westminster with ‘The Alliance after Ankara: Is NATO dead?’ examining if NATO can survive without the US, how governments can avoid the procurement mistakes of the past, and whether US pressure on allies to increase defence spending has started to yield results.
🗨️'What we are defending, I think, are the norms and values that we agree on in NATO and also that are very at the core of the European Union, and to defend those, you need resilience.'
- Kajsa Ollongren, Former Defence Minister, Kingdom of the Netherlands; Associate Fellow, Europe Programme, Chatham House
Speakers:
▪️General Sir Richard Barrons, Senior Consulting Fellow, International Security Programme, Chatham House
▪️ Paul Livingston CBE, Chief Executive UK & NATO, Lockheed Martin
▪️Kajsa Ollongren, Former Defence Minister, Kingdom of the Netherlands; Associate Fellow, Europe Programme, Chatham House
▪️The Rt Hon Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen, Chair, International Relations and Defence Committee, House of Lords
Chair:
▪️ Marion Messmer, Director, International Security Programme, Chatham House
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