June 24, 2026 (EIRNS)—In the morning program of national Radio Television Serbia (RTS) on June 22, editor Dr. Jasminka Simić presented a 4-minute video report on the conference of the Schiller Institute in Berlin, Germany on May 30–31, 2026, where she was a featured speaker.
Simić’s report, which highlights several of the 24 speakers of the two-day conference on the urgent need to establish a new global security and development architecture, identified the importance of Lyndon LaRouche’s historical strategic perspective for today: “When American President Nixon replaced fixed exchange rates with flexible exchange rates in the summer of 1971, American economist and founder of the Schiller Institute, Lyndon LaRouche, predicted that the continuation of the liberal course would necessarily lead to a new systemic crisis, depression, and the threat of war, unless a completely different economic system is implemented.”
At the conference, representatives of Asian countries pointed out the necessity of development, strengthening a shared future, and equal benefits for all. Professor Zhang Weiwei, Director of the Chinese Institute at Fudan University in Shanghai: “And that is crucial, because the lives of the people are extremely important in Chinese philosophy. Whatever you do, politically, economically, socially, it must ultimately provide something tangible for the lives of the people, whether in a material or non-material sense.”
Pino Arlacchi, a former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, believes that fundamental changes are needed to renew the UN world organization. “African countries have been demanding this for a long time, because certain parameters and procedures are not the same as they were 80 years ago,” said Charles Onana, a political scientist from Cameroon: “Africa will be crucial for the survival of Western countries, including even the question of defense, because the resources are there, and not elsewhere.”
Jasminka Simić, scientific researcher and journalist for RTS, spoke about the great potential of AI for the socio-economic transformation and cooperation of the countries of the Global South.
Stop Geopolitical Confrontation
During the first panel, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, President and founder of the Schiller Institute accused the political elites of the West as bearing “responsibility for missing the unique historical opportunity of 1989—the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War—to establish a peaceful order for the 21st century. The Russian leadership acted generously by agreeing to the reunification of Germany, and even its membership in NATO—albeit on the condition that foreign troops must not be located on the territory of the former German Democratic Republic.”
Jacques Cheminade from France identified the “geopolitical logic, which, if we do not stop its course, threatens the destruction of humanity. We all know here that the architecture of peace, built through mutual development and security, represents the key to the urgent and necessary change.”
Lawyer and writer Wolfgang Bittner from Germany addressed the nature of Germany’s sovereignty, where 11 American military bases are located. “The Granting of Sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany on September 12, 1990 through the 2+4 Treaty on the reunification of the two Germanies was accompanied by treaties on troop stationing, membership in NATO, a military alliance with a permanent cooperation structure under the Pesco umbrella, as well as other comprehensive military and economic agreements under the jurisdiction of the European Union.”
In conclusion, Simić reports about the effort by Helga Zepp-LaRouche for a“World Citizens’ Movement” based on the concept of the “coincidence of opposites” established by the 15th-century German philosopher and mathematician Nicholas of Cusa. “This means that although we hold opposing views, we share the same challenges of modern society, from the pandemic to nuclear threats, which inextricably binds us to a new paradigm in international relations with the idea of human unity.”
