Dear guests, welcome to another high level event that Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies organizes within our high flagship annual program “Belgrade NATO Week” which enjoys support of the Public Diplomacy Division of NATO (PDD).

Our hosts have put to us three questions. Answering to the first one – monitoring of external influences and managing them - requires some context. 

Good morning and welcome to the international conference hosted by the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS), this year taking place under the slogan ''Walk through Walls“. Welcome also to the Palace of Serbia, the artistic, architectural and historical jewel of Belgrade. 

The future of think tanks will depend on the course we take in our debates on how we are run as societies: whether we are able to keep to the good old reason or we go back to the age of powerful all-knowing leaders and manipulated masses.

Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS) from Belgrade presents new comprehensive research results “Serbia and the New Horizons – Citizens on Security Challenges, NATO, USA, Kosovo and Regional Cooperation” which CEAS commissioned from the Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID). Research was conducted in early November 2019 on a representative sample of 1.000 citizens of Serbia with Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) technique.

(as delivered)