
Mandl Mikro: Daniel Braun, Flora Handlir, Marco Vorgic, Vinzenz Willim (01.10.2026)
On the occasion of the visit of the participants of the Austrian Friends-of-Freedom's mentoring programme in Brussels the Austrian Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Friends-of-Freedom Austria, Lukas Mandl, hosted a podcast about security, defence and deterrence with Daniel Braun, former government official and policy advisor, today’s CEO of GLOBSEC, and with the three students and Friends-of-Freedom mentees Flora Handlir, Marco Vorgic and Vinzenz Willim. Braun shared deep insights into the analysis of the current state of Europe’s security, its links to the economy, and future perspectives. Lukas Mandl reiterated the European Parliament’s decisions since the beginning of Putin-Russia’s war of agression. Mandl also emphazised once again that „not at all the militarisation of all parts of society must be the objective for Europe. It’s quite the other way round: To uphold our societies of diversity and colourful daily life we need the capabilities to defend ourselve militarily.“ The three mentees shared as well their personal experience since the beginning of the war as well as their plans and visions for upholding the civliisation of liberal democracies.
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