Bled Strategic Forum strives to give a voice to differing positions, views and understandings of the topics that require the attention of the wider international community.

In 2017, BSF offered another platform to give a voice to differing positions – the official gazette of the BSF Bled Strategic Times (BST).

The gazette Bled Strategic Times offers an additional platform alongside the Bled Strategic Forum to voice the positions on diverse topics to political leaders, thinkers, business representatives and academics.

Bled Strategic Times 2023 features articles from authors such as: dr Robert Golob (Prime Minister of Slovenia), Tanja Fajon (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia), Dunja Mijatović (Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe), Jessika Roswall (Minister for EU Affairs of Sweden); Dr. Laurence Boone (Minister of State for Europe of France), Michael O’Flaherty (Director of EU Fundamental Rights Agency) and many other… 

Bled Strategic Times 2022 features articles from authors such as: dr Robert Golob (Prime Minister of Slovenia), Borut Pahor (President of Slovenia), Tanja Fajon (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia), Mevlüt Çavușoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affair of Türkiye), Ivan Korčuk (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic), André Loesekrug-Pietri (President of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI), the European ARPA), Nikola Dimitrov (Former Foreign Minister of North Macedonia, Non-Resident IWM Fellow) and more…

Bled Strategic Times 2021 features articles from authors such as: David Sassoli (President of the European Parliament), Zdravko Krivokapić (Prime Minister of Montenegro), Olivér Várhelyi (EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement), Evarist Bartolo (Minister of Foreign Affair of Malta), Mircea Geoană (NATO Deputy Secretary General), Odile Renaud-Basso (President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Werner Hoyer (President of the European Investment Bank), Klaus Regling (Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism), Zurab Pololikashvili (Secretary-General of the UNWTO), Paweł Jabłoński (Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland), Nick Bridge (UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change), Tim Benton (Research Director, Chatham House), Fredrik Erixon (Director of the European Centre for International Political Economy), Antony Froggatt (Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House) and more…

Bled Strategic Times 2020 featuring articles from authors such as: Josep Borrell (High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy), Ambassador Tuula Yrjölä (Secretary General, Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE)), Ambassador Bettina Cadenbach (Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)),Kensuke Tsuchiya (President, Toyota Adria), Matt Brittin (President, Google Europe, Middle East and Africa), Jakub Kalenský (Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab), Shada Islam (EU commentator and analyst, Founder, New Horizons Project), Tobias Flessenkemper (Head of Office, Council of Europe, Belgrade), Dr Matthew Rhodes (Area Studies Chair, George C. Marshall Center), Prof. Richard J. Harknett (Head, Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, Co-Director, Ohio Cyber Range Institute, and Chair of the Center for Cyber Strategy and Policy) and more…

Bled Strategic Times 2019 featuring articles from authors such as: Kersti Kaljulaid (President of Estonia), Phillip T. Reeker (Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State), Martin Reeves (BCG Managing Director and Senior Partner, Global Director of the BCG Henderson Institute), Dr Robin Niblett (Director, Chatham House), Dr Janez Potočnik (Co-Chair UN International Resource Panel, Partner SYSTEMIQ), Naser Kamel (Secretary General, Union for the Mediterranean), Majlinda Bregu (Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)), Josko Mrndze (Country Manager, Adriatics, Google), Andrea Illy (Chairman, illycaffe), Roberto Antonione (Secretary-General, Central European Initiative), Charles Powell (Director, The Elcano Royal Institute Madrid) and more…

Bled Strategic Times 2018 featuring articles from authors such as: Sir Julian King (European Commissioner for the
Security Union), Nikola Dimitrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of North Macedonia), Thomas Greminger (Secretary-General, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)), Dr Antje Herrberg (Chief Executive Officer, MediatEUr), Fatou Bensouda (Prosecutor, International Criminal Court), Dr Antonio Missiroli (Assistant Secretary-General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO), Christian Ketels (Chief Economist, The BCG Bruce Henderson Institute), Ernest Petrič (Professor of International Law, Member of International Law Commission), Abdulaziz Sager (Chairman, Gulf Research Center),Reva Goujon (Vice President of Global Analysis, Statfor) and more…

Bled Strategic Times 2017 featuring articles from authors such as: Angel Gurria (Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)), Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President of the European Commission), Mevlüt Çavușoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey), Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), Yukiya Amano (Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)), Rose Gottemoeller (Deputy Secretary-General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)), Mark Turrell ( Professor of Global Strategy, Hult International Business School), Tobias Flessenkemper (Senior Fellow of the Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE), member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)), Kristina Touzenis (Head of International Migration Law, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Sundeep Waslekar (President, Strategic Foresight Group) and more…