Category: Blogs

U.S. May Place Fighter Jets in Poland

By Marcin Sobczyk, the Wall Street Journal

From Marcin Sobczyk, the Wall Street Journal:  President Barack Obama, set to visit Warsaw this month, will announce the details of a move of U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets to Poland from the Aviano Air Base in Italy

Nuking NATO

By Julian Lindley-French

Tallinn, Estonia. Sitting here on the banks of the serene Baltic in a beautiful city founded by eighth century Danish knights it is difficult to imagine the tsunamis of violent history that have washed over this place. And yet, for the past two days I have been discussing a seismic shift in NATO’s nuclear reality […]

Why Turks Don’t Like NATO

By Marc Champion, the Wall Street Journal

From Marc Champion, the Wall Street Journal:  In the vexed debate over whether Turkey is shifting its axis to the east, a new study suggests that if it is, then that may be more about old-fashioned nationalism than rising Islamism. The study by the Betam research center at Istanbul’s Bahcesehir University crunches the data from […]

Mind What You Celebrate

By David Smith

This week marks the 66th anniversary of the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany, recognized in the West on May 8 and in the East on May 9. Thus an important chapter in the greatest conflagration in human history was closed—the war in the Pacific raged on for another three months. The epic Allied victory is well worth […]

Infographic: Debt Owed to German Banks

By James Joyner

Doug Saunders, the European Bureau Chief for Canada’s The Globe and the Mail, passes along the above infographic from Spiegel. It explains a lot about German anxiousness about the goings-on in the Eurozone. James Joyner is managing editor of the Atlantic Council.  

Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 8

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Turf wars within the EU

By Stephen Castle, the International Herald Tribune

From Stephen Castle, the International Herald Tribune:  There are few better illustrations of those continuing turf wars than the reaction to the death of Bin Laden. The first E.U. pronouncements were issued by Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament, even though he has very few foreign policy powers. His two declarations were followed by […]

Atlantic Update 5/9/11

By Klee Aiken

Today is all about the European economy, with the ‘big four’ holding secretive talks over Greece, Ireland receiving a loan rate reduction, while a "financial bomb" is diffused in Belgium. Libyan rebels look forward to Italian arms, an expectation quelled by Italy’s insistence that they will only include "self-defense material." Perhaps the Dutch could satiate […]

US congratulates the EU for celebrating Europe Day

By Hillary Clinton, U.S. Department of State

From Hillary Clinton, U.S. Department of State:  On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of the European Union as you celebrate Europe Day this May 9. Sixty-one years ago today, Robert Schuman issued a historic declaration proposing a European continent united in solidarity – one that […]

Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 7

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