Europe & Eurasia

Women Held Up Half the Sky to Defend Ukraine

By Diane Francis

In China, women are poetically referred to as “half the sky.” During the most dangerous hours of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, when tanks and water cannons and snipers were trained on protesters, roughly half of the Ukrainian activists were females of all ages. Now, the new film “Women of Maidan” beautifully portrays the critical role […]

Ukraine’s Next Big Gas Deadline Is Two Years Away: Will It Be Ready?

By Oksana Bedratenko

The European gas market has become more integrated and more competitive since the 2009 gas crisis when Russia turned off the tap for nearly a week and Europe practically froze. Europe has increased the resilience of its gas system by building interconnections between pipelines, expanding its storage network, and diversifying gas supplies by creating infrastructure […]

Report: Trump Told Hollande That France can Continue Protecting NATO

By Tara Palmeri, Kenneth Vogel, Josh Dawsey, and Nahal Toosi, POLITICO

President Donald Trump spent much of a recent phone call with French President Francois Hollande veering off into rants about the U.S. getting shaken down by other countries, according to a senior official

UK Prime Minister: Time for Allies to Step Up and Stop Outsourcing Their Security to the US

By Theresa May, Spectator

For more than two centuries, the very idea of America – drawn from history and given written form in a small hall not far from here – has lit up the world….

Flynn to Recommend Trump Back NATO Membership for Montenegro

By Andrew Hanna, Politico

White House national security adviser Michael Flynn will recommend that President Donald Trump support allowing the small Balkan nation of Montenegro to join NATO

Transatlantic Unity Faces a Stress Test

Challenges emanating from the Mediterranean region, including those posed by failed states, terrorism, and a historic flow of migrants, have contributed to a surge in populism on both sides of the Atlantic that could imperil transatlantic unity and the European project itself, Alexander Vershbow, a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council, said on February 1. […]