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Apr 7, 2011

US fuel stops Sweden’s jets from flying Libya mission

By the Local

From the Local:  The Swedish JAS Gripen aircraft deployed in Sicily as part of NATO’s Libya mission remained grounded on Thursday as the fuel available is suitable only for US navy aircraft.

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Apr 5, 2011

Global Watercooler: A More Robust UN?

By Frederick Kempe

 Around the watercooler today: UN acts in Ivory Coast; China outbids Australia for a Canadian copper mining company; and Germany chooses a new path. UN Watch:  Taking Sides in a Regime Change Strip out all the diplomatic niceties, and what we’re watching in the Ivory Coast is this: the United Nations is enforcing with military […]

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Apr 4, 2011

EU setting up military operation for Libya

By the Council of the European Union

From the Council of the European Union:  The Council adopted today a decision on a European Union military operation in support of humanitarian assistance operations in response to the crisis situation in Libya ("EUFOR Libya" operation).

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Apr 3, 2011

Europe needs a miliary avant-garde

By Charles Grant, the Center for European Reform

From Charles Grant, the Center for European Reform:  The Libyan operation has shown that the US now expects Europe to look after its own backyard.

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Apr 2, 2011

Philosophes sans frontieres as Plato battles NATO

By James Crabtree, the Financial Times

From James Crabtree, the Financial Times:  It is a story straight from a Bond film. A man on a top-secret mission seeks a taxi to sneak across the Libyan border.

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Apr 2, 2011

Advice for Obama: Coalitions require constant care and attention

By Meghan O’Sullivan, the Washington Post

From Meghan O’Sullivan, the Washington Post:  Given the most obvious differences between Iraq and Libya — no ground troops in Libya and no U.N. resolution in Iraq — few will take issue with [President Barack] Obama’s protestation.

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Apr 2, 2011

Lady in Waiting: Where is the EU’s foreign policy chief?

By Stephen Castle, Foreign Policy

From Stephen Castle, Foreign Policy:  The crisis in Libya is a rare instance in which Europeans can plausibly claim to be outdoing Americans in foreign policy, and a rarer one still of the old world being more prepared than the new to use its military muscle. But while France and Britain have burnished their leadership […]

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Apr 1, 2011

Europe Had Better Wake Up

By Lord Robertson, the New Atlanticist

From Lord Robertson, the New Atlanticist:  Europe, despite its relative prosperity and economic muscle, is still not, as we have seen, able to act in its own self-interest without US leadership and military capabilities.

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Apr 1, 2011

Swedish legislature approves sending fighter jets to Libya

By the Local

From the Local:  Sweden’s Riksdag on Friday voted overwhelmingly in favour of Sweden sending JAS Gripen fighter aircraft to Libya to monitor a UN-backed no-fly zone. The parliament voted through the proposal by a resounding 240 to 18, with five abstentions. "Sometimes the risk of intervening is less than the risk of not doing so," […]

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Apr 1, 2011

Chancellor Merkel’s Shellacking

By the Editors of the New York Times

From the Editors of the New York Times:  Even after pandering to voters’ fears about nuclear power, the euro and NATO operations in Libya, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany got a shellacking in her Christian Democratic party’s traditional bastion of Baden-Württemberg.

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