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Euro-Realism 2: How Safe is My Money?

By Julian Lindley-French

Lucullus, in Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens (spot the irony) warns, “This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.” As a Dutch tax-payer that warning carries little irony as billions of our hard-earned tax Euros have already vanished down the black hole of a failing currency – either in direct transfers […]

EU to ‘inspect vessels and aircraft heading to Syria’ with suspicious cargo

By the Council of the European Union

From the Council of the European Union:  In response to the ever increasing violence in Syria, the Council today strengthened the enforcement of the EU arms embargo against Syria.

Euro-Realism: Why We Need a New European Security Strategy

By Julian Lindley-French

I am a Euro-realist, neither a Euro-sceptic, nor a Euro-fanatic. My motivation is to drive through the fathoms of political fantasy and folly pouring forth from the current crisis, much of its cascading down from on high as a generation of failed political leaders try to hide behind a rhetorical deluge.

Confrontation in the Med? EU to enforce arms embargo against Syria

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

NATO and China cooperating in international counter-piracy operations

By Ben Bekkering, Allied Command Operations

From Ben Bekkering, Allied Command Operations:  A few days ago I visited Admiral Yang [Junfei], the Commander of the Chinese Task Force 113.

China and NATO: Grappling with Beijing’s Hopes and Fears

By Richard Weitz, Jamestown Foundation

Let’s Hear It for the European Union and the Euro

By Sarwar Kashmeri

It took the United States 100 years to set up its single currency and the Federal Reserve Bank. The European Union launched one in half the time. Now, with the agreement on June 28, 2012 to start the process of building a euro banking union and strengthen the European Central Bank, the stage is set to complete […]

The push for a greater ‘Europe’ is also dividing Europe

By Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist

From Julian Lindley-French, the New Atlanticist:  The current crisis has painfully exposed what is the great European divide

The American pivot depends on Europe to take care of its neighborhood

By Sven Biscop, the New Atlanticist

From Sven Biscop, the New Atlanticist:  Inadvertently or not, the United States is now demanding European strategic autonomy, at least regionally