Europe & Eurasia

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

By Philip Pullella, Reuters

Defense cuts risk Britain’s NATO standing

By James Kirkup and Peter Foster, Telegraph

From James Kirkup and Peter Foster, Telegraph:  New defence cuts mean Britain could fall below the Nato standard for defence spending, straining the UK’s military co-operation with the US, it has emerged.

Hammond: NATO split on whether main threat coming from Russia or MENA?

By Philip Hammond, E-Ring

From Philip Hammond, E-Ring:  The further east you go, the more of the concern remains that we should be prepared for a — maybe not full-blown state-on-state conflict — but we need to be prepared to protect the borders of NATO

Britain: European defense budget too small, yet ‘vast amounts of it are wasted’

By Philip Hammond, E-Ring

From Philip Hammond, E-Ring:  It’s the NATO planning process and looking at the overall capability that European NATO needs to be able to field and making sure that in the next planning framework horizon we get the capabilities we need

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.

Pro-Assad Syrian hackers launching cyber-attacks on western media

By   Nick Hopkins and Luke Harding, Guardian