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Berlin
08 October 2025
This workshop, co-hosted by EIES and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), examined the challenges confronting Europe’s wind industry with a focus on Germany. It built on recent reports published by EIES and ECFR.
Brussels
24 September 2025
EIES and Statnett SF hosted a Chatham House-rule workshop discussing securing energy infrastructure “by design” by anticipating and responding to hybrid threats and improving planning/permitting to accelerate and secure the development of new infrastructure.
EIES and Statnett were joined by decision-makers from the European Parliament, European Commission and NATO as well as industry leaders and civil society.
Prague
13 June 2025
EIES and the GeoTech Centre co-hosted a roundtable - Circularity for Security: Defence Critical Material Recycling for Europe - at the GLOBSEC Forum.
Budapest
19 - 20 May 2025
EIES held a roundtable - Securing Europe’s Supply Chains for Critical Sectors - at the BESTalks 2025 Budapest Conference discussing standards, traceability and transparency in critical minerals and strategic technologies.
BESTTalks 2025 is organised by the Equilibrium Institute, an independent Hungarian think tank.
London
24 April 2025
EIES held a breakfast discussion, on the sidelines of the IEA Summit on the Future of Energy Security, at the Royal United Services Institute in London. The roundtable, chaired by Joan MacNaughton, CB, of EIES' leadership council, was attended by a range of investors, lenders, insurers, defence offtakers, miners and civil society, and will culminate in a paper due to be released in June.
Washington DC
01-02 April 2025
SAFE Summit 2025 built on the success of both SAFE Summit 2023 and SAFE Summit 2024, growing its audience and prestige.
EIES Executive Director Alberic Mongrenier hosted a panel during the Summit, Transatlantic Storms and Synergy: Energy Security and Economic Resilience.
Brussels
20 March 2025
EIES and T&E organised a workshop with senior policymakers, industry representatives, clean tech manufacturing, and security experts to discuss how the EU can set an effective framework to manage risk and require technology and skills transfer from Chinese clean tech investment.
27 February 2025
For decades, Europe led the global automotive industry, shaping the future of transportation. However, Europe has fallen behind in the race for emerging automotive technologies, particularly batteries. This webinar explored learnings from Dunne Insights’ report for EIES’ “Europe’s Auto & Battery Industry: Revolutionary Change – Or Extinction.”
Munich
14 February 2025
On Friday, 14 February, SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) and its Energy Security Leadership Council held an exclusive event on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Plowshares into Swords: Rethinking Raw Material Supply & Recycling for National and Economic Security.
London
16 December 2024
EIES convened its Energy Security Leadership Council - Europe for its first in-person gathering in London on December 12th 2024.
22 November 2024
EIES brought together experts in an off-the-record setting to discuss mutual areas of interest including: future U.S. energy, climate, and related trade policies and their implications for Europe and European energy security.
Brussels
22 November 2024
EIES hosted an Allied Energy Infrastructure Security Roundtable with NATO’s ASG for Innovation, Hybrid and Cyber, Jean-Charles Ellermann-Kingombe and the Director General of DG ENER at the European Commission, Ditte Juul Jorgensen, with industry experts spanning energy producers, TSOs, cyber, and technology.
03 July 2024
EIES convened a high-level event, "Implementing a Whole-System European Energy and Supply Chain Security Strategy" on July 3rd, 2024. The gathering featured a keynote speech by Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Introductory remarks by Albéric Mongrenier, Executive Director, European Initiative for Energy Security and two panels: Building Diverse and Secure Global Supply Chains and Securing European and Allied Energy Infrastructure.
19 February 2024
The discussion focused on actionable strategies that would diversify access to critical minerals, as part of SAFE’s Mineral Investment Network for Vital Energy Security and Transition (MINVEST) partnership with the U.S. Department of State.
14 December 2023
On 14 December, the European Initiative for Energy Security (EIES) was launched, with a panel of leading voices including European Commission Executive Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, as well as Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi, former Hungarian Ambassador to the United Sates, and Andris Piebalgs, Former EU Energy Commissioner, both members of EIES’s Energy Leadership Security Council.