ELF HUB at Freedom Games 2025 is a meeting of individuals open to new ideas. The strategic goal of the project is to reinforce European dialogue from the liberal perspective. All leading topics constitute the key areas where Europe has been struggling in respective EU member states or as a whole.
ELF HUB at Freedom Games 2025 is a meeting of individuals open to new ideas. The strategic goal of the project is to reinforce European dialogue from the liberal perspective. All leading topics constitute the key areas where Europe has been struggling in respective EU member states or as a whole. As such, it is vital to start a debate on these issues, as only a comprehensive and inclusive dialogue may foster a way forward on an equal footing for all European states, regardless of geopolitical or historical implications.
24.10.2025
18:15-19:00 Opening
Błażej Lenkowski, President of the Board of the Liberté! Foundation, Director of the Freedom Games
Hanna Zdanowska, Mayor of Łódź
Joanna Skrzydlewska, Marshal of the Łódź Region
Beata Stelmach, President of the Management Board of Totalizator Sportowy
Jeannette Baljeu European Liberal Forum Board Member
Tom Palmer, Executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network, Atlas Network
dr. Lars-André Richter, Project Director for Central Europe at FNF
Saturday, 25.10.2025
10:00-11:00 How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
Carl Benedikt Frey, Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford
Internet Institute
Moderator: Agata Stremecka, Four Reasons Foundation, CEO
12:30-13:30 EU Competitiveness and Draghi Report
Speaker: Ignacy Niemczycki Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister
Gérard Pogorel Professor of Economics, European Liberal Forum
Jeannette Baljeu European Liberal Forum Board Member
Kamil Mirowski, General Manager at Zalando SE
Karin Karlsbro, Member of European Parliament, Renew Group, Sweden
Moderator: Francesco Cappelletti, ELF Senior Fellow
13.45-14.45 Chinese global expansionism
Speaker: Alicja Bachulska policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations
Silvia Mercado Vice-President, The Liberal Network for Latin America
Mateusz Grzeszczuk, journalist, podcast host „Podróż bez paszportu”
Daria Impiombato, Australian analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Moderator: Tomek Kamiński, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Łódź
14:45-15:30 BUFFET LUNCH
15:30 – 16:30 The threat of foreign interference
Speaker: Eerik-Niiles Kross Renew former head of intelligence, Estonia
Sabina Fati Deputy editor of the Bucharest daily, writer
Witold Jurasz Polish journalist and diplomat
Miko Haljas, Undersecretary for Defence Policy Ministry of Defence of Estonia
Petras Auštrevičius, Member of European Parliament, Renew Group, Lithuania
Moderator: Laurenz van Ginneken, Project Manager at European Network of Political Foundations
16:45-17:45 Europe’s common security and defense policy
Speakers:
Melinda Simmons, British Ambassador in Poland
Michal Szczerba, Polish MEP, EPP AFET
Eugeniusz Smolar, Journalist, Board Member
Ana Vasconcelos, MEP, Renew Group
Moderator: Bartosz Wieliński Polish publicist, political scientist, and journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza
19.00-21.30 BUFFET DINNER
Sunday, 26.10.2025
12:30-13:30 Future of Geopolitics
Edward Lucas, British writer, journalist, security specialist and politician
Moderator: Tomasz Kamiński, University of Lodz
13:45-14:45 Violence against women
Speaker: Katarzyna Kotula, Former Polish Minister for Equality
Barbara Kijewska, Institute of Political Science at the University of Gdańsk
Paulina Reiter, Journalist, Women’s rights activist
Joanna Gzyra-Iskandar, Communications Director, Feminoteka
Moderator: Ola Rymaszewska Project and Digital Transformation Office, European Liberal Forum
14:45-15:30 BUFFET LUNCH
16:45 – 17:45 Strategic Foresight: Detecting risks threats and opportunities to the EU project?
Speaker:
Cátia Moreira de Carvalho, Marie Curie fellow at the Dublin City University
Aleksandra Wiśniewska, Member of Polish Parliament
Moderator: Ricardo Silvestre Researcher and expert in the field of political science
Leszek Jazdzewski Vice-President, Liberte! Foundation
19.00-21.30 BUFFET DINNER