Category: Event Recap

Council Recognizes Distinguished Leadership and Honors Europe at Annual Awards Dinner

The Atlantic Council presented its 2014 Distinguished Leadership Awards April 30 before an audience of more than 900 US and international foreign policy and business leaders. The annual awards celebrate people and institutions that make extraordinary contributions to building transatlantic relations. Opening the ceremony for the first time, following his appointment in January, was the […]

Thomas Enders Delivers Remarks on the State of European Defense

“European defense is in an appalling state,” Thomas Enders, CEO of Airbus Group said during an Atlantic Council Captains of Industry event held immediately following the Council’s two-day Toward a Europe Whole & Free conference on April 30.

President Obama to Visit Europe Amid Russia Crisis, Biden Says

Vice President Tells Council: Ukraine-Russia Conflict ‘Was Born in Putin’s Mind’ President Barack Obama will visit Poland in June for the 25th anniversary of the free elections that marked that country’s exit from its era of communist rule under Soviet domination, Vice President Joe Biden said at the Atlantic Council today. Obama’s visit to Poland […]

Defending the Vision of a Europe Whole and Free

Eastern European Defense Ministers on NATO and the Crisis With Russia Four Eastern European defense ministers discussed the transatlantic community’s need to respond to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine today, joining NATO’s deputy secretary general, Alexander Vershbow, at a conference on Europe’s future sponsored by the Atlantic Council. Barry Pavel, director of the council’s Brent Scowcroft […]

Madeleine Albright, Stephen Hadley: Obama, Media Need to Focus Americans on Ukraine

Democratic, Republican Foreign Policy Leaders on US Role in the Struggle for Europe’s East A Democratic former secretary of state and a Republican former national security advisor agreed today that President Obama, Congress and the US media should focus on explaining to Americans why Russia’s attacks on Ukraine are a critical problem for a United […]

Barroso Discusses Europe’s Unity in Light of Ukraine Crisis, TTIP, and EU Elections

By Anni Piiparinen

Testing Europe’s Unity The Atlantic Council kicked off the second day of the conference “Toward a Europe Whole and Free” with a keynote conversation featuring José Manuel Durão Barroso, president of the European Commission. With the crisis in Ukraine unfolding, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations on the agenda, and the European Parliament […]

Introduction of Transatlantic Emerging Leaders

Heads of state and government from all 28 NATO nations will convene at the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales this September to reaffirm the importance of the Trans-Atlantic bond and build a strong foundation for its future. To help Alliance leaders accomplish this task, NATO has commissioned a working group of emerging leaders from member […]

Origins and Future of a Europe Whole and Free

By Erik Brattberg

A panel discussion on the Origins of a Europe Whole and Free stepped back from the current issues facing the transatlantic community to reconsider the decisive moment of European history in 1989-1990, when the Berlin Wall was toppled and, within months, the entire edifice of Eastern Europe’s communist rule. The former national security advisors of […]

Defining a Strategy for Europe’s East

This special panel on Defining a Strategy for Europe’s East included national leaders from Lithuania, which hosted the last EU summit on the Eastern Partnership, and from Latvia, which will host the next Eastern Partnership summit in 2015.

Consolidating Europe’s South

By Sarah Bedenbaugh

Toward a Europe Whole and Free Panel Explores Growth of Southern Europe After an eventful start to the two-day conference “Toward a Europe Whole and Free,” and immediately following keynote remarks by US Secretary of State John Kerry, the Atlantic Council held a moderated panel discussion on “Consolidating Europe’s South” with four ministers from the […]