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Just What Is The Real Level Of Government Debt In Europe?

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Sep 4, 2025

Dispatches from Damascus: The state of Syria’s postwar transition nine months after Assad’s fall

On a recent trip to the Syrian capital, Atlantic Council experts took note of how far the country has come since the Assad regime’s fall and what still needs to happen to secure peace and prosperity.

New Atlanticist
Aug 29, 2025

Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine

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Atlantic Council experts

August saw a flurry of diplomatic activity to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As September nears, Atlantic Council experts share their insights on what to expect next.

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Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

New Atlanticist
Aug 28, 2025

Germany wants to double its defense spending. Where should the money go?

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Atlantic Council experts

After decades of Berlin underinvesting in its defense, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has plans to transform the Bundeswehr into Europe’s strongest military.

Defense Policy
Europe & Eurasia

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Feb 14, 2010

Just What Is The Real Level Of Government Debt In Europe?

By Edward Hugh

“If you don’t fully understand an instrument, don’t buy it.” To the above advice from Emilio Botín, Executive Chairman of Spain’s Grupo Santander, I would simply add one small rider: Don’t sell it either, especially if you are a national government trying to structure your country’s debt.

New Atlanticist

Feb 12, 2010

Afghanistan Effort at Critical Juncture in 2010

By Ivo Daalder

President Obama’s decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan reflects the critical juncture reached by NATO and its partners, including the Afghan Government, in this eight-year engagement. The international community has rallied to the cause with increased troop commitments.

New Atlanticist

Feb 12, 2010

Euro Debt Crisis: A Discussion with Currency Strategist Marc Chandler

By Peter Cassata

In his latest New Atlanticist Podcast, Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri addresses the Euro debt crisis and the recent hedge fund betting of over $8 billion in short positions against the common EU currency. He talks with Marc Chandler, the Chief Currency Strategist for the investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman and author of Making […]

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Feb 11, 2010

Europe or Europeans: Deciding the Transatlantic Future

By Robert Manning

It is difficult to escape the irony of a Europe who, after anxiously awaiting George W. Bush’s exit, is finding the current administration’s relations with the region are far from what was expected. “Obama disses Europe,” the Washington Post‘s Anne Applebaum writes, is, “more or less, is how Europeans have described the American president’s decision […]

European Union
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Feb 11, 2010

Eurozone and the Five Little PIIGS

By King Banaian

Greece has been the story underneath much of the financial markets this week. The problem is that while everyone wants to solve the problem with Greece’s sovereign debt crisis, nobody wants to put money behind it.

New Atlanticist

Feb 10, 2010

Hawk-Industrial Complex Hamstrings USA

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

"Clueless in Washington" was how The Economist, a British weekly read by movers and shakers the world over, headlined America’s crisis in governance. Neither the president nor Congress shows any sign of knowing how to tackle the budget deficit.

New Atlanticist

Feb 10, 2010

Pakistan-US Relations: A Marriage That Needs Work

By Harlan Ullman

For more than 60 years the U.S.-Pakistani relationship has veered between despair and euphoria. In a very social sense, the two states could be characterized as an aging married couple occupying very distant parts of a large, deteriorating house whose plumbing, electrics and phone systems are in disrepair and who are at a loss on […]

New Atlanticist

Feb 9, 2010

Euro in Deep Trouble?

By James Joyner

In its short existence, the Euro has achieved its goal of establishing itself as a rival to the dollar. But many analysts see trouble ahead, with some wondering if it can survive much longer. Writing for the FT, Peter Garnham, Victor Mallet and David Oakley report that "Traders and hedge funds have bet nearly $8bn […]

New Atlanticist

Feb 9, 2010

Democracy Still Matters

By Derek Reveron

New Atlanticist

Feb 9, 2010

Obama and Europe: An Interview with Ewen MacAskill

By Peter Cassata

Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri sat down with Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, for the latest installment of the New Atlanticist Podcast Series.

European Union
International Organizations

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