Brussels Forum 2025

Partnership Disrupted: How Can Transatlantic Cooperation Endure?  

In 2025, leaders on both sides of the Atlantic are confronting dramatic challenges in a highly unstable global environment. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific, and the reconfiguration of alignments across the globe all demand new thinking. Mounting threats to democracy, anxiety about economic and technological competitiveness, coupled with declining trust in institutions, information and facts, and traditional alliances, all demand new approaches to transatlantic policy. Join us at this 20^th edition of Brussels Forum where we will explore and debate the issues and ideas shaping the transatlantic outlook for prosperity, democracy, and security against a backdrop of unprecedented disruption. 

Brussels Forum 2025 will take place June 11 and 12, 2025 at Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels, Belgium.

GMF's Brussels Forum is the preeminent platform for global leaders, policymakers, and experts across sectors to shape the transatlantic agenda and debate the most pressing global challenges. Brussels Forum showcases diverse voices across regional and demographic backgrounds and promotes dialogue that is candid and open. 

Speakers of past Brussels Forum editions include Mike Pence, Vice President, The United States of America; Samantha Power, Administrator, USAID; Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General, NATO; Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, European Union and Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President, European Commission, among others.