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Dec 8, 2011

US Lessons for the Eurozone Restoring Confidence through Transparency

By Julie Chon

As European leaders meet to decide the future of the Eurozone, Julie Chon argues in a new Atlantic Council – Bertelsmann Foundation issue brief that Europe must learn from the United States’ TARP experience, and match a sizeable bazooka with a clear and transparent process for markets to understand how financial mechanisms will work. She […]

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Dec 8, 2011

Association Agreement Won’t Help Ukraine on its Path to EU Integration

By Taras Kuzio

Adrian Karatnycky and Alexander J. Motyl both believe that the EU should go ahead and move forward with the Association Agreement. They believe it would be imprudent to isolate Ukraine and to push it into the Russian-dominated CIS Customs Union.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Dec 6, 2011

Is This June 1940 All Over Again?

By Julian Lindley-French

I am back in Rome, the eternal city, under new management facing a €30 billion austerity plan. Rome, that is, not me.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Dec 2, 2011

Europe on the Verge of a Systemic Breakdown

By Ben Carliner

Are we finally approaching the end game of the Eurozone’s debt crisis? Tuesday’s coordinated central bank action, though welcome, is less a comprehensive solution and more of a reminder of how scared central banks have become.

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Dec 2, 2011

€-Day: Just How Broke Are We Europeans?

By Julian Lindley-French

€-Day approacheth and with it the Onion’s day of reckoning. Norway is not in the EU and yet strangely there is no visible sign that civilisation is about to collapse. Quite the reverse! Indeed, it is nice to be in a country that works.

Economy & Business European Union

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Dec 1, 2011

The Endgame: Can Fiscal Integration Save the Euro?

By Jason Harmala

On December 1, 2011, the Council’s Global Business and Economics Program hosted a conference call with André Sapir, senior fellow at Bruegel and a member of the Council’s Business and Economics Advisory Group, and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, research fellow at the Peterson Institute on International Economics, on the latest developments in Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union

NATOSource

Dec 1, 2011

EU, NATO condemn attacks by Serb militants

By Slobodan Lekic, the AP

From Slobodan Lekic, the AP:  The European Union and NATO on Thursday condemned attacks by Serb militants in Kosovo that have injured 50 NATO peacekeepers and jeopardized Serbia’s application to become a candidate for EU membership.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2011

Isolation Won’t Heal Ukraine’s Democratic Deficit

By Adrian Karatnycky

Twenty years ago today, Ukraine’s citizens ratified their country’s independence in a nationwide referendum, thereby ushering in the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union and launching their tortuous march toward a market economy, democracy and sovereignty.

European Union International Organizations

NATOSource

Dec 1, 2011

Spain’s view of NATO and “military missions abroad” according to its official Security Strategy

By the Office of the Prime Minister of Spain

From the Office of the Prime Minister of Spain :  Ensuring the security of Spain, its inhabitants and its citizens is an essential responsibility of the Government and the Public Administrations, but also of society as a whole. Security today is everyone´s responsibility.

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2011

Saving the Euro – and the European Union

By Daniel Price

Germany ought to be able to debate its eurozone partners on the shape of needed economic reform without conjuring up historical fears of hegemony.

Economy & Business European Union

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