PERSPECTIVE PEACE AND SECURITY SHAPING THE ZEITENWENDE Towards a Shared Social Democratic Approach to Eastern Europe Ireneusz Bil, Max Brändle, Reinhard Krumm, Iwona Reichardt(eds.) October 2024 This consensus paper presents the positions of a Social Democratic working group from the the Baltic States and Central Eastern Europe, Germany and the Nordics. The launch of military aggression against Ukraine was the latest act in a long process of Russia’s disengagement from the West. There will be no peace in Europe with an international law-breaking, aggressive Russia. Ukraine first. Ukraine should become a role model for a“Second Transition” concentrating also on education, public health and other social policy areas.