Bern Security Dialogue

An independent forum in the Swiss capital advancing a collective security strategy for Europe and the Alpine region.

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Thank you to everyone who made it to our first "The Cost of Freedom" symposium at Käfigturm. We could not be more grateful for your participation and reflections. Each of us has something to contribute that, taken together, serves as a force multiplier.

[Amanda Rivkin Häsler @amandarivkin]

Via @swissinfo_en: “The Bürgenstock resort itself is owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund.”

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In this week's Alpine Security Monitor, Germany moves two ships for Strait of Hormuz engagement, Italy reopens Tehran embassy and EU Parliament lifts immunity of Italian MEP over Huawei scandal
https://t.co/uYsXydmMRD

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In this week's Alpine Security Monitor, French jet shoots down drone in Latvian airspace, Franco-German Eurofighter jet project shelved and Germany records politically motivated crimes at an 'all-time high'
https://t.co/PYHBHDQECM

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Rede des Botschafters bei der Feier zum Flaggentag der Finnischen Streitkräfte - Finland abroad: Schweiz

“Just over a month ago, the Bern Security Dialogue organized a seminar, aptly and thought-provokingly titled ‘The Price of Freedom.’”

Read more: https://t.co/gQPfMIsYBY

[Georg Häsler @Georg_Haesler]

"Remember, there is this expression: follow the money. Now for those even in the Alps, the pivot to Asia is real and underway", schreibt @amandarivkin. Tatsächlich überholt Hong Kong Zürich als Finanzplatz Nummer 1 - trotz Geldzufluss aus dem Nahen Osten.

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Last week @kvoneggert-who spoke at our "Cost of Freedom" symposium-like everyone else in Vilnius, received a civil defence authority text message: “This is an air raid alert, seek shelter”. The reason: an unidentified drone appeared in Lithuanian airspace. https://t.co/vpLRkSfcdm

[Amanda Rivkin Häsler @amandarivkin]

Did you know “Hong Kong overtakes Switzerland as global hub for offshore wealth” this week?

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In this week's Alpine Security Monitor, Germany loses out on UN Security Council seat to Austria, Schröder spotted in Moscow and French jets scrambled 11 times on Baltic Air Policing mission
https://t.co/8AQSh3W5WU

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One of the foremost experts on maritime warfare lives in landlocked Switzerland. @BernSecDialogue Co-Chair + @NZZ security politics correspondent @Georg_Haesler asks what US frigates in the Med have to do with the Alpine air defense? (Gift link, in German) https://t.co/SNEPSb4IQI

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Italian UN Palestine Rapporteur back on US sanctions list, Italian Googler indicted in NY and KNDS preps for an IPO
https://t.co/Lk2VOJjggt

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You can subscribe to receive our weekly media monitoring newsletter that comes out every Friday concerning major security stories around the Alpine region with a view on the world from Switzerland. https://t.co/cOq8fgYyEM

[Georg Häsler @Georg_Haesler]

The new Alpine Security Monitor with the editorial of @amandarivkin: "The desire to mirror transatlantic politics like a hand in glove on both sides of the pond is a grevous error."

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In this week's Alpine Security Monitor, Israeli minister's bullying taunts sparks diplomatic outrage, US removes sanctions on Italian UN Palestine Rapporteur and Germany replaces US Patriot battery, forces at Incirlik AFB
https://t.co/O0Cswr21RN

[Georg Häsler @Georg_Haesler]

"So here we are. Russian electronic warfare has successfully diverted a Ukrainian drone which struck inside a NATO member state resulting in the toppling of the government in a country with a rather weak state", writes @amandarivkin. The window of vulnerability is open now.

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In this week's Alpine Security Monitor, Putin wants Schröder as Europe's Ukraine negotiator, AfD politicians will attend St. Petersburg forum and German political, intel leaders clash over Iran hybrid threat
https://t.co/nOIZDd3Eqd

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“In our society, freedom has become so taken for granted that we hardly appreciate its value anymore”, says @MAStrackZi in an interview out today with Bern Security Dialogue Co-Chair and @NZZ security politics correspondent @Georg_Haesler. https://t.co/vQlJ9ZzeW7

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In the current geopolitical turmoil, Bern Security Dialogue Co-Chair @Georg_Haesler writes in @NZZ that scenario planning has limitations as Trump and Putin have seen their powers checked and their countries' prestige diminished. (Gift link, in German)
https://t.co/L72D9MSkFB

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Cornelia Meyer @MeyerResources, who spoke at our recent symposium, looks forward to US President Donald Trump’s visit to China later in the week in this scene setting editorial for @AlArabiya_Eng. https://t.co/BrKfYRkVwq

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A speaker at our “Cost of Freedom” symposium last month accurately foresaw a UFO-based disinformation campaign, obtaining exclusive quotes preemptively from various members of the US government past and present, with his story dropping hours before a data dump from the Pentagon🛸

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

📄 EXCLUSIVE: With the White House set to launch a new website about "aliens," we dug into the backstory — with new, original reporting on the networks and motives behind the effort.
https://t.co/M7xni8IUZ3