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Does Steadfast Jazz Reveal How NATO Members Will Respond to Crisis in Central Europe?

By Andrew Rettman, EUobserver

Nato is to hold large-scale war games on Russia’s border a couple of weeks before the EU, at an event in Lithuania, plans to take away a former Soviet jewel: Ukraine.

Euro-Realism: Now For the Long Term?

By Julian Lindley-French

In 1910 Brigadier-General Henry Wilson gave a lecture arguing that a European war was inevitable and Britain’s only option was to ally with France. One of the attending officers responded by suggesting that only “inconceivable stupidity on the part of statesmen” could trigger such a disaster. Wilson responded with derision, saying that “inconceivable stupidity is […]

NATO Secretary General: ‘Something Needs to be Done’ to Help Libya

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I can confirm that the Libyan authorities have requested NATO assistance to build or reform the security sector.

Jonathan Faull on Transatlantic Approach to Financial Reform

On October 9, the Atlantic Council hosted Jonathan Faull, director-general of Internal Market and Services at the European Commission, to discuss recent European financial regulatory reforms, EU bank re-capitalization efforts, and the future of the transatlantic economic partnership broadly. The discussion was moderated by C. Boyden Gray Fellow Dr. Chris Brummer, and touched on issues […]

Lithuania Warns Russia It Might Block Access to Kaliningrad

By Reuters and RT

From Luke Baker and Justyna Pawlak, Reuters:  Lithuania could block Russia’s road and rail access to its enclave of Kaliningrad if Moscow keeps pressuring its neighbors over their ties to the European Union

Russian Policies towards Ukraine are Illogically Consistent

By Taras Kuzio

The European Parliament on September 12 called on Russia to respect the right of EU Eastern Partnership members such as Ukraine to enter Association Agreements. The resolution, which received overwhelming support across the parliament’s political groups, called on Russia to not use trade sanctions to force Ukraine to choose the Eurasian over the European Union.

EADS Head Says EU Lacks Clear Security Policy

By Daniel Michaels, Wall Street Journal

European policy on foreign affairs and security is less coherent now than at any point since the Cold War ended, widening a military gap with the U.S.

US and EU: Lack of strategic vision, frustrated efforts toward the Arab transitions

By Danya Greenfield and Amy Hawthorne

A new Atlantic Council report, US and EU: Lack of Strategic Vision, Frustrated Efforts Toward the Arab Transitions, argues the United States and its European allies lack strategic vision in supporting the Arab countries that embarked in 2011 on a democratic path—Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen—and have not lived up to their stated commitments for […]