Facing the Storm – Two Years in the Tusk Cabinet

AG2September 5th, 2016 (Monday) at 1:15 PM at the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy (Gedimino st. 44 – 202) a public lecture by the Deputy Head of the Cabinet of the President of the European Council Donald Tusk André Gillissen on the subject “Facing the Storm – Two Years in the Tusk Cabinet”. During the lecture guest will present how the Cabinet of the President of the European Council Donald Tusk operates, what challenges the Cabinet faces and how they deal with them.

The Cabinet of Donald Tusk faces unprecedented challenges for the European Union: BREXIT and leading the European Union while trying to map future of the organization accepted by all member states; migrant crisis because of the instability in the Middle East and work with heads of states to deal with it; Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, annexation of Crimea and the EU response to Russia’s actions when searching for solidarity.