M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and M100 Media Award 2023

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Wladimir Klitschko demands action from Chancellor Scholz

Excerpt from the acceptance speech by Wladimir Klitschko, who accepted the award on behalf of the people of Ukraine at the M100 Media Award ceremony on 15 September. After the welcoming speech by Potsdam’s Lord Mayor Mike Schubert, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gave the keynote speech. The laudations were given by Donald Tusk, President of the Civic Platform, former President of the European Council, and Dr Amy Gutmann, Ambassador of the United States to Germany.

“But I am here on a very clear mission: not only to make an acceptance speech, but also to tell you that this war is still raging, and has been raging in Ukraine for six months. And it is understandable that people are getting tired of hearing about this war, how much we are suffering, and everything that we need, and that we keep saying: please support us, please help us. We are asking because it is a matter of life and death. It is a matter of existence. If you want to eradicate a people – and that is exactly what Putin’s Russia wants, to eradicate a people – you have to eradicate history. History has taught us this.
And that is precisely what Russia is doing: destroying schools, universities, museums. But language will not be wiped out. I stand for Russian-speaking Ukrainians. But that does not mean we should stop using Ukrainian and stop speaking Ukrainian – because that is what identifies our culture.
Ukraine has been suffering from this war since 2014, and eight years ago my brother Vitali stood in this very spot, and was awarded for this struggle for freedom. Even then, he and many others issued a warning to the free world: Russia not only annexed Crimea and started this war in Eastern Ukraine. Russia will continue if there are no consequences. Consequences, serious consequences, very serious consequences!”

Please read Wladimir Klitschko’s entire speech here.

Study “High Expectations, low Trust”

18 September 2022. “High Expectations, low Trust. European public opinion in crisis-ridden times” is the title of a recent study presented by Hardy Schilgen of the think tank eupinions at the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium last Thursday (15 September). The study (authors: Isabell Hoffmann and Hardy Schilgen) was conducted exclusively for the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium and presented there. The data were collected in June 2022, with nearly 12,000 online interviews. They are representative for the EU27 as a whole and for the individual Member States Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands.

In short, the findings are following: EU citizens want to see a more active European Union on the global stage and are generally satisfied with the political system of the EU. At the same time, their short-term expectations towards the EU to fulfil its potential in this regard are rather limited and trust in the “actors” of politics remains low.
Please read the entire study here.

Opening Speech by Olga Rudenko, Editor-in-Chief The Kyiv Independent

Potsdam, 15 September 2022

“Dear journalists, editors, and guests of the conference,

It’s an honor to be able to address you. I’m here as a journalist, as an editor of an independent news site, the Kyiv Independent, and as a Ukrainian.

If this event had taken place seven months ago, the trip here would have been an easy and pleasant one. I would have come to the airport in Kyiv, checked in, had a cup of overpriced coffee, and boarded my flight to Berlin. Two hours later, I’d arrive. It would be normal and safe. Now, to come here, I have to spend nearly 20 hours on trains, and then take a flight from another country. The trip takes at least one whole day. I don’t feel safe for most of it because Russia has attacked trains in the past. There are no more flights from Ukraine. We don’t know if any of our airports have survived, as Russia targeted them with missiles in the first days of the invasion.
Seven months ago, my life changed forever.”
Please read the entire speech here.