Live publication event of expert report

Operation Baltic Sea

How the West Is Countering Russia’s Hybrid Warfare

A joint publication by Toivo think tank and Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies

Live from Helsinki – Tuesday 25 Nov, 8:00 a.m. CET (9:00 Helsinki time)

Date & time: Tue 25 Nov 2025, 8:00–9:30 (CET) (9:00 – 10.30 Helsinki time)

Agenda

08:00–08:05 — Opening remarks
Raine Tiessalo, Executive Director, Toivo
08:05–08:15 — Euro-Atlantic Responses to Russia’s “Boiling Frog” Strategy in the Baltic Region
Dr Ionela Ciolan, Research Officer, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
08:15–08:35 — Panel discussion: Countering hybrid threats in the Baltic Sea region Dr Ionela Ciolan and Dr Teija Tiilikainen, Director, European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)
08:35–08:45 — Audience Q&A and discussion
08:45–08:55 — Finnish public opinion on the Baltic Sea Juho Rahkonen, Director, Iro Research
08:55–09:15 — Panel discussion: Politics and the protection of the Baltic Sea (in Finnish) Pauli Aalto-Setälä, Member of Parliament and Baltic Sea parliamentarian, Dr Nina Tynkkynen, Professor of Environmental Governance and Policy, Åbo Akademi University
09:15–09:30 — Audience Q&A and discussion

This conference receives financial support from the European Parliament. Sole liability rests with the organiser; the European Parliament is not responsible for the activity.