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Europe Awaits the Great Gas Cutoff

New Atlanticist
Jul 5, 2024

Dispatch from Warsaw: Poland’s military and economic rise is coming just in time, as the West wobbles

By
Daniel Fried

Its rise at home and its strategic clarity about Russia have placed Poland in the first rank of European powers for the first time in centuries.

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Europe Awaits the Great Gas Cutoff

EnergySource
Apr 3, 2024

Central and Eastern Europe needs to rethink its approach to energy security

By
Pawel Czyzak and Nolan Theisen

The upcoming Three Seas Initiative Summit is an opportune time for Central and Eastern European leaders to pivot toward clean, affordable, and local renewables to build energy security.

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Europe Awaits the Great Gas Cutoff

New Atlanticist
Mar 6, 2024

NATO enlargement at twenty-five: How we got there and what it achieved

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Jerzy Koźmiński and Daniel Fried

Two and a half decades after Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined NATO, their membership continues to protect them from Russian aggression.

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New Atlanticist

Apr 14, 2014

Europe Awaits the Great Gas Cutoff

By New Atlanticist

Escalating Ukraine Crisis Is Unlikely to Let Russian Gas Flow Smoothly to Europe  “European countries from Germany and Poland to Italy and Turkey now need to ensure they have emergency plans in place to deal with a possible cut-off of Russian gas supplies,” Atlantic Council Senior Fellow John Roberts writes in an essay. As new violence […]

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Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

NATOSource

Apr 11, 2014

Report Criticizes Czech Contribution to NATO Defense

By CTK and NATO

From CTK:  According to yesterday’s daily Hospodarske noviny (HN), a highly critical NATO report concludes that the Czech Republic would not be useful for NATO if a real war broke out unless it adds money to the armed forces.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Prague

NATOSource

Apr 11, 2014

NATO Secretary General: Russian Forces Near Ukraine ‘Ready for Combat’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

For the first time since countries like the Czech Republic won their freedom, and the Cold War ended, we see one state trying to grab part of another’s territory at gunpoint.

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Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Facility in Romania

NATOSource

Apr 9, 2014

US May Accelerate Deployment of Missile Defense System in Poland

By David Larter, Defense News

The military could speed up deployment of a land-based missile defense shield in Europe to hem in a resurgent Russia, the Navy 3-star in charge of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said in early April.

Central Europe Europe & Eurasia
Bulgarian MiG-29's

NATOSource

Apr 8, 2014

Bulgaria Considering Air Policing with Turkey and Romania Due to Increase in Russian Flights Near Borders

By Lithuania Tribune

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has said Sofia should cooperate with NATO partners Turkey and Romania in the face of increased Russian surveillance flights coming close to Bulgarian airspace.

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REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2014

Hungary: Re-elected Government Will Remain a Cold European Ally

By David Koranyi

Prime Minister Orbán Wins Gerrymandered Vote Hungary elected a parliament for the next four years on April 6, an event largely hidden amid the Ukraine-crisis and Afghanistan’s election the day before. But the victory of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his conservative nationalist Fidesz party suggests that Hungary will remain a cold, calculating, unenthusiastic member […]

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F-16s of the 421st Fighter Squadron, July 20, 2012

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2014

Ukraine Crisis: US Sending F-16 Jets to Romania for Exercises

By Luiza Ilie, Reuters

The United States will deploy F-16 fighter jets to Romania this month as part of planned joint exercises, the NATO member’s defense minister was quoted as saying, amid rising tensions in neighboring Ukraine after Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at NATO's Steadfast Jazz exercise

NATOSource

Apr 7, 2014

Czech President says NATO Could Offer Troops to Ukraine if Russia Goes Beyond Crimea

By Robert Muller, Reuters

The West should take strong action, possibly including sending NATO forces to Ukraine, if Russia tries to annex the eastern part of the country, Czech President Milos Zeman said on Sunday.

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Marines in the Black Sea rotational force, April 24, 2013

NATOSource

Apr 3, 2014

US Sends More Marines to Romania, Navy Vessel to Black Sea

By Nick Simeone, American Forces Press Service

The Defense Department is deploying additional Marines to enlarge a rotational crisis response force based in Spain, and is also dispatching a naval vessel to the Black Sea to conduct exercises with U.S. allies in the region, a Pentagon spokesman said today.

Central Europe Southern & Southeastern Europe
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski and Secretary of State John Kerry

NATOSource

Apr 2, 2014

Ukraine Crisis: Poland Calls for 10,000 NATO Troops on its Territory

By Financial Times, New York Times, Telegraph

From Financial Times:  The violation of Kiev’s security guarantees by Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders has prompted Warsaw to ask for a deployment of two heavy brigades of Nato troops to Poland.

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