International Organizations

Is Europe Losing Faith in the EU?

By Frederick Kempe

Happy Europe Day! If you don’t know May 9 is Europe Day, then you find yourself in good company with a majority of Europeans. Even in the most buoyant time, this holiday – marking the Schuman Declaration, presented by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman in 1950, that launched the European Coal and Steel Community – […]

The Peasant’s Revolt

By Julian Lindley-French

High up in the majestic Yorkshire hills I am but a flat-cap stone’s throw from my native Sheffield.  The sheep stand fast protecting their new-born lambs from the scything, sheeting and predatory rain.  This is a place of unforgiving beauty. It was much the same back in 1381 when Wat Tyler and Jack Straw led the Peasant’s […]

Italy’s Andreotti, leading postwar politician, passed away at 94

By Philip Pullella, Reuters

NATO Secretary General: Striking a new transatlantic deal

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Should the EU develop a joint European Strike Force?

By Olivier de France and Nick Witney, European Council on Foreign Relations

From Olivier de France and Nick Witney, European Council on Foreign Relations:  [T]he European Council needs to shake up the system by itself demanding that blueprints be produced for one or two major, exemplary, integrative projects.

Russia’s Foreign Minister sees danger in ‘NATO trying to play a global role with global military reach’

By Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Policy

From Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Policy:  Of course the relationship between such big countries can never be cloudless. And we have some things which still divide us. Missile defense is one case in point.

A Transatlantic Trade Deal Within Reach, With Significant Benefits At Hand

By Garrett Workman and Tyson Barker

According to a recent Atlantic Council-Bertelsmann Foundation study of trade experts and policymakers from the United States and Europe, there is widespread optimism that that two sides will be able to successfully negotiate a trade and investment deal. A transatlantic deal would have significant positive effects on the economies of both regions, particularly at this […]