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Europe After The Vote

Jun 21, 2012

Post-Electoral Greece

By Matthew Bryza

While markets in Europe and the United States breathed a collective sigh of relief with the victory of the sober Antonis Samaras and his New Democracy Party in last Sunday’s Greek parliamentary elections, the absence of a substantial market rally immediately thereafter reflected the seriousness of the work that lies ahead. Greece may have dodged […]

Elections Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Jun 21, 2012

The Politics of Banking

By Ben Carliner

Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, pretty much summed up the G20 summit in Mexico when he said “we have not come here to receive lessons in terms of democracy or how to handle the economy.” It’s not hard to understand his frustration.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 21, 2012

Putin Pessimistic on Missile Defense Problem

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  The missile defense dispute between Russia and the United States will not be resolved regardless of whether President Barack Obama will be re-elected in November, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 21, 2012

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific hosts NATO exercise

By Ashley Nekoui, DVIDS

From Ashley Nekoui, DVIDS:  Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific was one of three locations throughout the world to host the Coalition Warrior Interoperability eXploration, eXperimentation, eXamination, (CWIX) Exercise, June 6-20.

United Kingdom United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 21, 2012

Turkey to restore ties with France after genocide row

By Reuters

From Reuters:  Turkey has agreed to restore all ties with France, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday, following a breakdown in relations last year prompted by a simmering dispute over the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

MENASource

Jun 21, 2012

Will Egypt’s Transition Get a Second Chance?

By Sarah Adel Henry

What do Egypt’s transition and a lousy orchestra have in common? When the music is a mess, the conductor – or rather the SCAF – starts over “from the top.” After a year and a half of a messy transition that is going nowhere fast, Egyptians were stunned by two Supreme Constitutional Court rulings that […]

New Atlanticist

Jun 20, 2012

Euro End Game Begins

By Julian Lindley-French

It is beginning. The Euro end game is upon us. Last night President Hollande said at the G-Empty summit in Los Cabos that the bail-out fund should be used to ease the cost of Spanish and Italian borrowing. This is leader-speak for telling us all that the contagion that started with Greece and spread to […]

MENASource

Jun 20, 2012

House Hearing Testimony on Egypt

By Michele Dunne

Testifying today as part of a US House of Representatives Middle East Subcommittee panel on Egypt will be quite challenging in view of the breakneck pace of events.  Today a coalition of judges who set out to do a parallel count announced that they agreed with the Muslim Brotherhood that Morsy won by about 900,000 […]

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2012

The Need for NATO’s Partnerships

By R. Nicholas Burns, Damon Wilson & Jeff Lightfoot, the New Atlanticist

From R. Nicholas Burns, Damon Wilson & Jeff Lightfoot, the New Atlanticist:  [T]o address the challenges of a globalized security landscape, the Alliance also needs to do more with partners outside the Euro-Atlantic area who share its interests and values and make valued contributions to international security.

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Jun 20, 2012

The Euro’s Global Security Fallout

By Walter Russel Mead, the Wall Street Journal

From Walter Russel Mead, the Wall Street Journal:  The crisis of the euro zone is a geopolitical as well as an economic event.

Economy & Business European Union
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