The key conclusions and recommendations of the roundtable sessions are as follows:

1. The current dynamics of security challenges and threats—such as hybrid threats and cyber security—transcend national borders and demand a coordinated, joint response. Today, no one can act effectively without partners, friends, and allies.
2. It is essential to take seriously and acknowledge the views of numerous experts who equate hybrid warfare with conventional kinetic aggression, given the daily threats Europe faces and the potential negative consequences for targeted societies and states. Therefore, we can say: Europe is at war—an undeclared war that takes many different forms.
3. Attackers exploit our weaknesses and vulnerabilities, abuse democratic principles, and seek to maliciously influence decision-making processes—including political events such as referenda and elections. They distort public understanding by spreading falsehoods, creating division, and provoking crises and conflicts wherever possible.
4. Security is the foundation for achieving the strategic goals of any country. It is an essential component of all development processes. Our shared objective must be to preserve stable, secure, prosperous, and democratic societies—capable of responding effectively to emerging security challenges.
5. The era of illusions — when we relied on the U.S. "nuclear umbrella"— is behind us. Europe must now be prepared to defend democracy, human rights, freedoms, and its own interests — both within its borders and beyond.
6. European countries — EU members, NATO allies, and others — must show determination in building bridges toward a stable, secure, and peaceful future. We must strengthen friendships and alliances within the EU and NATO, with Nordic, Baltic, and Central European nations playing a key role, given their past and present experiences in defending our sovereignty (territorial, information and digital) and democracy.
7. It is necessary to create the conditions to defend territorial, informational, and digital sovereignty, develop a comprehensive active defense system that enhances the resilience of entire societies. Domestic debates about the future should be constructive, aimed at uniting diverse ideas and perspectives, rather than deepening divisions in already polarized societies.
8. Decision-making processes must be simplified and grounded in accurate, complete information and knowledge obtained from reliable and credible sources. Politically correct language should be avoided — especially in the decision-making process and when the informational support is provided to decision-makers by national intelligence communities. Political correctness prevents us from recognizing the real causes, divide them from consequences and from finding solutions that address the root causes of negative outcomes. If we focus solely on the consequences, we will never be able to protect our societies and states effectively, nor secure the conditions for their stable democratic development and the free lives of our citizens.
9. The authoritarian regimes, posing the threat to the Euro Atlantic community, are taking advantage of quicker and simpler decision-making processes, without being limited by the check and balance measures existing in the democratic states. Similarly, our adversaries are effectively abusing the democratic procedures and legal institutions (e.g. obtaining data useful for intelligence purposes based on regulations granting the access to public information). We need to take all action necessary to prevent them from it as soon as possible. It will be extremely challenging task, as such an effect must be achieved in framework of the democratic system, without violation of our citizens’ rights and liberties.
10. We are witnessing a continuous battle of narratives aimed at undermining the public information environment through a flood of falsehoods. Unfriendly regimes have long mastered the art of injecting false and malicious information into the public spheres of individual countries and across the EU — both directly and through intermediaries.
11. In its confrontation with the Western community, Russia is not merely seeking to restore the influence, capacities, and role of the former Soviet Union; it is also intent on pushing NATO back to its 1990 borders and reestablishing itself as a global superpower. Key goal of the Russian policy is to undermine unity and sow unrest in EU and NATO countries—particularly during decision-making processes concerning their defense and security.
12. Sabotage operations planned and executed by the Russian armed forces, intelligence services, and recruited individuals have become routine occurrences across Europe. Russia has intensified the activities of its intelligence community targeting the interests of the EU, NATO, and their member and allied states, and has activated a network of agents/illegals engaged in numerous hostile operations throughout Europe.
13. Physical and cyberattacks on key critical infrastructure—including oil and gas pipelines, electrical grids, water supply systems, information and communication networks, media, healthcare systems, air, land, and maritime transport—have become increasingly frequent. These are accompanied by acts of sabotage, diversion, assassination, and arson; the instrumentalization of migration and Orthodox Christianity; and the use of artificial intelligence and modern technologies to generate and spread false and malicious information. All of this has intensified in parallel with Europe’s support for Ukraine after Russia has launched a full-scale invasion in 2022.
14. Russia’s efforts to spread instability, insecurity, and division in societies and states are expanding beyond its primary objectives, particularly towards the region of the Western Balkans, the six Southeast European states.
15.  Russia is systematically shifting the "risk limits" by the conscious escalation of tensions (e.g. causing increasingly frequent and dangerous incidents), which is intended to strengthen in Western societies the fear of a possible armed (or even nuclear) confrontation.
16.  It is essential to continuously build and strengthen trust among the state, public and governmental institutions, the academic sector, and society at large. The ultimate objective is to establish an effective and integrated (active) defense system — one that deters potential aggressors from planning and executing hostile actions. At the same time, existing development, security, and defense strategies — covering both physical territory and the information and cyber domains — must be revised at national and international levels to reflect current and emerging challenges, risks, and threats. Active efforts must be made to protect the integrity and independence of political processes such as referendums and elections. Armed forces must evolve at strategic, operational, and tactical levels to effectively counter new and complex threats. No risk, regardless of how unlikely it may seem, should be dismissed or underestimated.
17.  Equally important is ensuring that the population has secure and reliable access to credible sources of information and knowledge, as well as developing and strengthening media, information, digital, and overall literacy, to support critical thinking. Only then can individuals make informed decisions based on truth, rather than on maliciously manipulated and disseminated content.
18.  Constant inflow of illegal migrants to Europe creates additional risks and threats to host societies and may adversely affect political, economic, and security processes. Therefore, illegal migrants should be promptly returned to the countries from which they initially entered the EU territory.
19.  There is an urgent need to update the “NATO Hybrid Strategy,” which dates to 2015, as it is clearly no longer adequate for the current security environment, both in Europe and globally.