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Russia Reset Gone Wild: European Arms Sales to Russia

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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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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.

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Economic Sanctions

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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.

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Crisis Management

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Jun 7, 2011

Russia Reset Gone Wild: European Arms Sales to Russia

By Ian Brzezinski

As NATO Ministers of Defense convene in Brussels on June 8 and 9th, they face a full plate. They will review the operations in Afghanistan and Libya. They will give thanks to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for his leadership, and they will address how the Alliance will sustain and exercise its capabilities in a […]

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Jun 7, 2011

Gates to deliver provocative farewell speech to European allies

By Jorge Benitez

Beware Brussels; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is coming to “put a bit of stick about.” Gates is planning to deliver a major speech with critical language while he is in Europe this week for his final meeting with NATO Defense Ministers.

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Jun 7, 2011

Netanyahu: Et Tu Brutus?

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

When a joint session of the U.S. Congress gave Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu 29 standing ovations — four more than U.S. President Barack Obama received for his last State of the Union message — there was little doubt that Israel is an integral part of the American body politic. It was a hard-line speech […]

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Jun 7, 2011

Atlantic Update 06/07/11

By HuiHui Ooi

Obama receives German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House today whereas Germany’s energy policy is left in a mess after its 2022 nuclear phase-out decision. Greece struggles to tackle its debt crisis and Europe’s youth continues to protest unemployment. On the other hand, are the stronger Euro areas in the EU like the Netherlands, […]

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Jun 6, 2011

Turkish Elections Primer

By Ross Wilson

Ross Wilson, director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council and a former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, provides this backgrounder on this weekend’s elections in a pivotal state.

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Jun 6, 2011

Merkel’s Visit to Washington: Where do Germany and the US Stand?

By Sarwar Kashmeri

German Chancellor Merkel arrives in Washington this week to receive America’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom. But is the German-American relationship heading upwind after Germany’s refusal to support the war in Libya, and an about turn on nuclear energy? How to interpret these developments?

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Jun 6, 2011

D-Day: The High Water Mark of Anglo-American Defence Relations?

By Julian Lindley-French

D-Day. June 6. London. Good news – it is raining. Good to see the natural order restored. Back in 1944 Americans, Britons and Canadians were struggling ashore onto Norman beaches under heavy fire to rid Europe of the Nazis. On this day of days it is right and proper to look back and remember and […]

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Jun 6, 2011

Atlantic Update 06/06/11

By HuiHui Ooi

Europe continues to tackle the E. Coli issue. Greece may require another bailout, wheareas the European Central Bank receives junk bonds from European banks, which is potentially harmful to its reputation and the Euro. The German cabinet approves the eradication of nuclear power by 2022, and Mladic threatens a hunger strike if his rights are […]

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Jun 3, 2011

Poland, Libya, and NATO

By Daria Dylla

Poland, an ambitious Central European state with aspirations to play an increasingly important role on the European stage, has reliably joined US-led coalitions of the willing even when faced with strong opposition from other members of the transatlantic family. Until the Libya crisis. After unconditionally backing the US during the Iraq War in 2003, supporting […]

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Jun 3, 2011

The Extradition of Mladic Will Test EU Intentions Towards Serbia

By Rennie Silva

In 1987, in a harbinger of the conflict that was soon to engulf Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic was dispatched to its southern province of Kosovo to diffuse rising ethnic tensions. Fatefully pledging before a Serbian audience that “no one will ever dare to beat you again”, his words instead unleashed a wave of nationalist fervor that […]

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