The University of Oradea, together with the New Strategy Center and with the support of the Bihor County Council and the Museum of Tara Crisurilor Oradea, organized on Thursday, May 19th, the “Security of South Eastern Europe and the importance of the transatlantic component in the context of the conflict in Ukraine” seminar .
The event was attended by Mr. George Scutaru, CEO of New Strategy Center, who addressed the topic of hybrid threats of the Russian Federation and Romania’s energy potential at the Black Sea, and Mr. Dan Dungaciu, member of the Scientific Council of NSC, who presented the peculiarities of the frozen conflicts in the Black Sea region.
The Russian Federation uses several hostile tools of a hybrid nature, from propaganda and interference in elections, to pressure in the energy field, and to minimize their effects, threats of this kind require a complex and interinstitutional response, developed alongside allies. The debate highlighted Romania’s energy potential at the Black Sea, which can provide important quantities of gas in the region, at least for a decade, thus diminishing the dependence on the Russian Federation.
During the seminar, Mrs. Simona Cojocaru, Secretary of State within the Ministry of Defense, and Ștefan Danilă, former Chief of the General Defence Staff, also had interventions on the latest global geopolitical changes, the aspects of deterrence on the Eastern Flank of NATO and Romania’s role in this process, as well as the importance of Romania’s infrastructure from a military perspective.