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Netanyahu’s political setback casts a shadow over Kushner’s Middle East peace plan

New Atlanticist
Mar 6, 2025

How European leaders are responding to Trump’s approach to Ukraine and Europe

From London and Berlin to Paris and Brussels, European leaders have taken several notable steps this week on security. This follows the blow-up between the Ukrainian and US presidents on February 28.

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Netanyahu’s political setback casts a shadow over Kushner’s Middle East peace plan

New Atlanticist
Feb 26, 2025

Why the US should not lift sanctions against Russia

By
Charles Lichfield

Sanctions are having an unmistakable effect, albeit below the inflated expectations of many in the West in early 2022. Lifting them now would be a mistake.

Conflict
Economic Sanctions

Netanyahu’s political setback casts a shadow over Kushner’s Middle East peace plan

New Atlanticist
Mar 5, 2025

The Egyptian plan for postwar Gaza is a good starting point—but it needs changes

By
Thomas S. Warrick

While many obstacles remain, the Egyptian proposal could form the starting point for negotiations over a workable plan for postwar Gaza.

Conflict
Crisis Management

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New Atlanticist

May 30, 2019

Netanyahu’s political setback casts a shadow over Kushner’s Middle East peace plan

By James B. Cunningham

Netanyahu now finds himself the victim of a political landscape which he himself had a large part in shaping over the past ten years, unable to build his Likud into a majority party, and beholden to far-right and ultra-orthodox religious parties on the one hand and to the secular followers of Avigdor Liberman on the other. 

Elections Israel

New Atlanticist

May 30, 2019

Quiz: Europe catches election fever

By Atlantic Council

With twenty-eight different contests, were you able to keep track of the big winners and losers? Take our quiz to see if you truly are a master parliamentarian.

Elections European Union

New Atlanticist

May 30, 2019

What will it take to reconcile Europeans with their own parliament?

By Valerie Rouxel-Laxton

This year's European parliamentary elections, rather than being about the “European project,” played a role in exposing the dividing lines on policy choices made at the European level.

Elections European Union

New Atlanticist

May 29, 2019

EU elections produce fragmentation, but also opportunity for Europe

By David A. Wemer

While European leaders can breathe a sigh of relief that the populist surge proved less powerful than expected, significant challenges remain to bring together a fractured European political landscape and agree to leadership that can help Europe meet the many threats ahead.

Elections European Union

New Atlanticist

May 29, 2019

Lithuania shuns populism with the election of a pro-EU president

By Agnia Grigas

Lithuania's presidential election has demonstrated the maturity of its electorate, who were not swayed by populism or extremism.

Elections Northern Europe

New Atlanticist

May 28, 2019

WTO Deputy Director-General Wolff: The United States seeks to change the WTO

By Marie Kasperek

While Washington’s path to achieve change is highly disruptive, many of the US administration’s points of discontent are shared by other members who agree that the WTO is in urgent need of reform.

Economy & Business International Organizations

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2019

Europe’s smaller parties win big in European Parliament elections

By David A. Wemer

The big gainers of the night were the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), which benefited from the debut of French President Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche party, and an array of far-right Euroskeptic parties who made gains throughout Europe.

Elections European Union

New Atlanticist

May 26, 2019

The 2019 EU elections

By Atlantic Council

A collection of Atlantic Council pieces on the European parliamentary elections.

Elections European Union

New Atlanticist

May 24, 2019

The last days of May

By John M. Roberts

British Prime Minister Theresa May has suffered the ultimate political indignity, announcing her own political demise after just three years as prime minister of the world’s fifth-biggest economy.

European Union United Kingdom

New Atlanticist

May 24, 2019

Theresa May resigns over Brexit chaos

By David A. Wemer

Having taken office less than one month after the UK voted to leave the EU, May will now leave almost three years later with that very exit still up in the air.

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