Increasing defence spending, the importance of the defence industry for the economy, linking internal and external security and other current issues in the field of security and defence were discussed at the 12th annual national conference Our Security Cannot Be Taken for Granted, which we held on 18 March 2025 in the Ball Games Hall of Prague Castle.
In addition to leading experts, the President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala, the Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic Vít Rakušan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Jan Lipavský, and the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic Jana Černochová accepted the invitation to speak. The foreign keynote speaker of this year’s event was Oleksandr Kamyshin, Advisor to the President of Ukraine. There was also the traditional political panel with the participation of leaders of political parties and movements represented in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.
The conference was held under the auspices of the President of the Republic Petr Pavel, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Fiala, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic Vit Rakusan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Jan Lipavsky, and the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic Jana Černochová.
We would like to thank our general partners Czechoslovak Group and TATRA TRUCKS, main partners BAE Systems, Colt CZ Group, Lockheed Martin, Sellier & Bellot and ZEVETA AMMUNITION, partners Aero Vodochody, Aircraft Industries, era, MESIT and Omnipol, toast partner Ray Service and media partners CZ Defence and natoaktual.cz. We would like to thank the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic for the main support and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the Public Diplomacy Division of NATO, and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung for support.
