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Feb 5, 2010

Romania Accepts U.S. Plan for Missile Defense

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: Romania’s top defense body approved an American proposal to base missile interceptors there, the country’s president said Thursday in a hastily arranged announcement. The president, Traian Basescu, said in a statement that Romania, a former Warsaw Pact member and now part of NATO, was prepared to negotiate with the United […]

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Feb 5, 2010

NATO Defence Ministers Decide to Focus on Three Priorities

By NATO

From NATO: It has been a very positive meeting. Ministers have agreed measures to ensure that our books are balanced. That we have balance between resources and requirements, balance between revenue and expenditures. We will now focus on implementing the package. And that includes doing more together – an issue which we discussed in depth. […]

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Feb 5, 2010

US and Europe: Matching Words with Deeds

By Stephanie Hofmann and Kenneth Weisbrode

So much attention has gone to Barack Obama’s decision to skip this year’s US-EU Summit — the latest in a now long series of perceived snubs — that almost nobody seems to have noticed what is, at least according to the State Department, a milestone in transatlantic relations.

New Atlanticist

Feb 5, 2010

Obama Snubs Europe. Again.

By James Joyner

President Obama has once again set off a round of charges that he’s snubbing European leaders, this time with the announcement he’ll skip May’s EU-US summit. Deborah Seward for AP:  French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed off President Barack Obama’s decision not to attend an annual summit with European leaders while […]

New Atlanticist

Feb 5, 2010

Zapatero the Optimist

By Nicholas Siegel

Despite coming off what the Spanish press has dubbed “Zapatero’s Horrible Week,” the President of Spain gave an inspired and constructive speech before the Atlantic Council in Washington last night.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2010

NATO Chief: No Plan to ‘Bribe’ Taliban

By the AP

From the AP: NATO does not intend to bribe Taliban guerrillas to defect to the Afghan government side as a way to end the war, alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday, dismissing concerns over the latest plan to end the country’s growing insurgency… In a post on the alliance’s Web site ahead of a […]

NATOSource

Feb 4, 2010

EU Summit Scrapped After Obama ‘Snub’

By the BBC

From the BBC: The European Union has scrapped a summit with the US, after President Barack Obama decided not to attend. The event in Madrid in May was to have been the highlight of Spain’s six-month EU presidency, and the cancellation is seen as a humiliating blow. Officials say the summit may take place later […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Feb 4, 2010

Obama’s Challenge is a Broken Political System

By Harlan Ullman

After a year and two weeks in office, President Barack Obama and his approval ratings have suffered more than just the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. As virtually all recent presidents before him, the first year has been unkind and even hostile.

New Atlanticist

Feb 4, 2010

Obama’s Iraq Policy Must be Focused on More than Withdrawal

By Henry Kissinger

In a 71-minute State of the Union address, President Obama managed no more than 101 perfunctory words about Iraq. Throughout its term, the administration has recoiled from discussing Iraq’s geostrategic significance and especially America’s relation to it.

NATOSource

Feb 3, 2010

China, India Boost Defense as Crisis Takes Toll on West

By Reuters

From Reuters: China and India sharply raised defence spending in 2009 despite the economic crisis but most European NATO members face a squeeze on defence budgets as they rein in gaping deficits, a report said on Wednesday…. In Europe, though, many countries had seen their budget deficits rise sharply as they pumped money into the […]

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