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Oct 18, 2013

Who Represents Egypt?

By Tarek Radwan

The Muslim Brotherhood recently suffered its most decisive blow yet. Egypt’s State Litigation Authority decided on October 8 to forego any challenge to the September court ruling that bans “the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its non-governmental organization and all the activities that it participates in and any organization derived from it.” This […]

North Africa

Trade in Action

Oct 18, 2013

Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement Concludes

By Brett McGee

Today marks the conclusion of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations between Canada and the EU. CETA is a solid blueprint for Europe to continue building its relationship with the United States. After four years of negotiations the agreement managed to remove 99% of trade tariffs as well as liberalize many service industries […]

Economy & Business European Union
NATO Missile Defense

NATOSource

Oct 18, 2013

Why Russia Keeps Moving The Football On European Missile Defense: Politics

By Joan Johnson-Freese and Ralph Savelsberg, Breaking Defense

The Russian Foreign Ministry has continually insisted on legally binding guarantees that US missile defenses are not aimed at it and that would allow Russia access to sensitive aspects of the system.

Iran Missile Defense

MENASource

Oct 18, 2013

Top News: Egypt’s Army and Muslim Brotherhood are Negotiating, Says Islamist Leader

By EgyptSource

A plan to end Egypt’s political deadlock will be unveiled after Eid al-Adha, al-Jama’a al-Islamiya’s Aboud al-Zomor told US website The Daily Beast. He said both the army and the Muslim Brotherhood have realized that neither is able to break the other. As a result, there was potential for a political breakthrough.

MENASource

Oct 18, 2013

Top News: Saudi Arabia turns down UN Security Council membership

Saudi Arabia said on Friday it will refuse to accept a rotating United Nations Security Council seat, saying the council is incapable of ending wars and resolving conflicts.

Demonstration of the Field Deployable Hydrolysis System

NATOSource

Oct 17, 2013

US Offers Mobile Unit to Destroy Syria’s Chemical Weapons

By Anthony Deutsch and David Alexander, Reuters

The Pentagon is suggesting the world’s chemical weapons watchdog use a U.S.-made mobile destruction unit in Syria to neutralize the country’s toxic stockpile, officials told Reuters.

Syria United States and Canada

Trade in Action

Oct 17, 2013

What We’re Reading | October 17

By Garrett Workman

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs
PM Mark Rutte visits Patriot missiles at NATO airbase at Incirlik

NATOSource

Oct 17, 2013

Dutch Prime Minister Visits Patriot Units Deployed in Turkey

By Hurriyet Daily News

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited NATO’s İncirlik airbase in the southern Turkish province of Adana, where Patriot units sent by the Dutch army have been stationed since January.

Missile Defense Security & Defense
Steadfast Jazz is designed to "reassure" and "deter"

NATOSource

Oct 17, 2013

Does Steadfast Jazz Reveal How NATO Members Will Respond to Crisis in Central Europe?

By Andrew Rettman, EUobserver

Nato is to hold large-scale war games on Russia’s border a couple of weeks before the EU, at an event in Lithuania, plans to take away a former Soviet jewel: Ukraine.

European Union International Organizations

MENASource

Oct 17, 2013

The Rationale Behind European Union Efforts in Egypt

By Fady Salah

The European Union (EU) has been heavily engaged in ongoing events in Egypt over the past few months. As political unrest has prevailed, several EU officials visited Egypt to meet with government representatives, both of the current and former regimes, as well as party officials from across the political spectrum. The most notable EU official […]

North Africa
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