19 – 21 September 2025
Helsinki Security Forum 2025
THE HOUR OF EUROPE
HSF 2025 asks ‘The Hour of Europe’
As the global environment faces rapid and disruptive changes, Europe’s ability to act is once again tested.
Helsinki Security Forum 2025 – The Hour of Europe offers a unique platform for high-level security and defence dialogue at a time when old certainties are fading and new challenges demand urgent responses.
Europe must move decisively by boosting competitiveness, investing in defence, and shaping a security order that reflects its own values and interests, says Hiski Haukkala, Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
“These are not optional ambitions – they are necessary responses to a world in flux that will not wait for Europe to catch up. The illusion of guaranteed protection or prosperity, whether through the transatlantic alliance or global stability, is sadly fading. These themes are all present in the HSF 2025 programme.”
Publications
for HSF Blog
Mud, Tech and Bravery: What Ukraine Teaches About Modern Security
Today in Ukraine, there is a warm early-autumn rain. That means one thing: fewer drones fly along the frontline, but…
for HSF Blog
Conscription Without Conviction? Rethinking How We Inspire Defence and Rearm Europe
NATO member countries have agreed to increase their defence and security-related spending to 5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)….
Helsinki Security Forum 2025 Report
The international order continues to face rapid and disruptive change. Strategic competition is intensifying, emerging technologies are redrawing the boundaries…
for HSF Blog
A united and innovative Europe: Answering the call of our time
I have emphasised the importance of Europe’s persistence to ensure the sovereignty of Ukraine several times in my previous writings…
