Over the past few years, Germany has significantly expanded its military presence in the Baltic states, most prominently by assuming NATO’s lead-framework nation status in Lithuania. Equally though, for a long time, Berlin pursued a Russia policy that was sharply at odds with the views of the three Baltic states. From the Baltic vantage point, German lawmakers have been too receptive to Russian influence and ideas about how European security should be organized. In light of Russia’s 2022 war of aggression against Ukraine, are German-Baltic geopolitical worldviews aligning at last? How has Germany’s defence policy orientation and discourses changed? Is the current Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) model, which Germany is an essential part of, sufficient to deter Russia? By gathering lead academics and policy practitioners in Vilnius, this workshop aims to evaluate key inflection points and controversies nestled within German-Baltic security relations.