President of the Aspen Institute Romania and former NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana spoke on Thursday, at the opening of the 4th edition of the Euro-Atlantic Resilience Forum 2025 (EARF), in favour of cooperation and the development of resilient societies within a secure climate, amid fierce competition for global supremacy.
"Human society is changing the speed (...) like never before in history. Geopolitical competition for global supremacy we had before, we have it again, that's an intense competition for global dominance (...) that the real competition - how to best organize human society. (...) For the first time in history, humans will be able to use materials that are not part of the Mendeleev table. This is one of the most profound revolutions in science, technology and industry that we ever had before in human history, so this is putting immense press on governments, on societies and on business models. This is a time where the weakest link will crack first and the stronger one will move ahead. So, my encouragement and my message to this very important forum is to please don't think that still the things are going to be the same, they are changing so immensely under pressure on us (...) People are concerned, they are anxious and this is why we need a whole of society, as we call it in NATO, in the EU approach, societal resilience. And I urge each and one of you to really start cooperating outside of your silos (...) That's a very harsh competition for global supremacy," Geoana said.
He believes that the term "hybrid threat" is obsolete, pointing out that we currently are "in the stage, in the era of permanent asymmetric warfare."
Mircea Geoana underscored the importance of a common action in order to defend the democratic values.
"So, in a nutshell, resilience is becoming part of national security doctrines. (...) So from national security strategies to business models there will be a cost for business, for resilience, for supply chain, for cyber, for energy, for healthcare, for everything, this will be a cost, and after, work together government, parliaments and private sector to making sure that we make that cost bearable. And find a way for allowing also our private sector, our business sector, our corporations, big and small, to be able to be also resilient. (...) We don't have the luxury to believe that what we do is good enough, individually and collectively, we have to really thing ahead and be together because we are defending, basically, our democratic values and what we are standing for in NATO and the EU," Geoana also conveyed.
The Euro-Atlantic Resilience Forum, organised by the Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre, is taking place on Thursday and Friday at the Palace of Parliament.
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