Region Spotlight

Featured events

The Transatlantic Digital Marketplace Initiative

In-depth Research & reports

Program

The Europe Center promotes the transatlantic leadership and strategies required to ensure a strong Europe.

Content

NATOSource

Jul 9, 2012

President of Romania impeached amid EU, US concern

By Alison Mutler, the AP

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jul 6, 2012

Why the euro is breaking the European dream

By Charlemagne, the Economist

From Charlemagne, the Economist:  A new report by a group of prominent economists—sponsored by Jacques Delors, the former president of the European Commission, and Helmut Schmidt, the former German chancellor—describes in telling detail how the euro is destroying itself.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jul 6, 2012

Angela Merkel, Europe’s Weary Mountaineer

By Frederick Kempe

To help illustrate Germany’s historic dilemma as it calculates the risks of rescuing Europe, Ronald Freeman, a London banker friend, conjured up an image of Chancellor Angela Merkel as a weary mountaineer leading a perilous rock climb. Still some distance from safety, Merkel alternates between shouting instructions to those hanging behind her on a taut […]

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Jul 2, 2012

Stop Playing Games over Europe Mr. Cameron

By Julian Lindley-French

In an article yesterday in London’s Sunday Telegraph, British Prime Minister David Cameron hinted at a possible in/out referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU. “Let us start to spell out in more detail the parts of our European engagement we want and those we want to end”, Cameron urged.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 29, 2012

Vershbow: ‘NATO has stood by Georgia, and we will continue to do so’

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

From Alexander Vershbow, NATO:  NATO is based on shared values and principles – freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. 

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Jun 29, 2012

Soviet collapse holds a lesson for the euro

By Philip Stepgens, the Financial Times

From Philip Stepgens, the Financial Times:  The conviction that, whatever else happened, the state and socialist system were immutable, proved the downfall of Soviet policy makers.

European Union International Organizations

Report

Jun 28, 2012

Arab awakening: Are the US and EU missing the challenge?

By Danya Greenfield and Rosa Balfour

The authors Danya Greenfield, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, and Rosa Balfour, head of the Europe in the World Program, European Policy Center, analyze the progress made to date, but conclude that despite ambitious rhetoric by policymakers, the response of the United States and the EU has […]

Democratic Transitions European Union
US-EU progress report

Event Recap

Jun 28, 2012

Arab Awakening: Are the US and EU Missing the Challenge?

By Jason Harmala

Despite the desire to help Arab countries in the midst of political transitions, the United States and European Union have yet to seize upon opportunities to help generate economic growth and promote the growth of democratic institutions in these countries, according to a new report by Danya Greenfield, deputy director of the Rafik Hariri Center […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jun 28, 2012

Euro Crisis Threatens Global Security

By Steven Grundman and A.J. Wilson

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,” wrote the Irish poet William Butler Yeats of the dark time he envisioned in the aftermath of World War I. Today, the converse of this proposition overshadows our future: if Europe fails to respond to the euro-zone crisis in a way that reinforces its center, things will begin […]

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Jun 25, 2012

European Political Union: What Would it Look Like?

By Julian Lindley-French

Cicero, that great defender of the Roman Republic and implacable opponent of those that would abuse power in the name of the people once said, “Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscene than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system”.

European Union International Organizations

Experts

Events