Category: NATOSource

Europe’s Myopic Defense Cuts

By Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, the Project Syndicate

From Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, the Project Syndicate:  All over Europe, budgets are being pared as a new age of austerity takes hold. Defense expenditures are proving to be the easiest of targets.

Pro-European alliance ahead in Moldova elections

By the AP

From the AP:  Moldova’s governing pro-Europe alliance was leading the opposition Communists, election results indicated Monday, but it appeared the coalition was just short of winning enough legislative seats to end the country’s year-long political deadlock.

France stands by U.S. after WikiLeaks cables

By Reuters

Calls From Man With Terror Links Prompted German Alert, Official Says

By Michael Slackman, the New York Times

From Michael Slackman, the New York Times:  Germany’s recent decision to declare a terrorism alert and dispatch heavily armed police around the nation was set off by phone calls from a man who said he wanted to quit working with terrorists and warned of a pending Mumbai-style attack

Partners for Peace? Just Possibly

By John Vinocur, the International Herald Tribune

From John Vinocur, the International Herald Tribune:  NATO’s final communiqué didn’t talk of seeing a “strategic partnership” with Russia

The Lisbon Summit and Ratifying START

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  If you did not spend last weekend tuned in to news from the NATO summit meeting in Lisbon, you probably missed the breakthrough on European missile defense. NATO leaders agreed to jointly develop a shield intended to intercept short- and medium-range missiles. And Russia agreed to cooperate, […]

Diplomatic Cables Reveal US Doubts about Turkey’s Government

By Spiegel

The Wikileaks Cables and Transatlantic Relations

By Scott Shane and Andrew W. Lehren, the New York Times

From Scott Shane and Andrew W. Lehren, the New York Times:  A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.

Turkey: What NATO means for us

NATO has released new videos on YouTube providing national perspectives on the Alliance.

For NATO alliance, progress in Lisbon

By the Editors of the Washington Post

From the Editors of the Washington Post:  The war in Afghanistan has threatened to break the NATO alliance – regardless of the outcome of the war itself.