European Union

Europe’s funding choices raise transatlantic concerns

By the Wall Street Journal

From the Wall Street Journal:  The London Telegraph reports that in 2009 the EU gave at least €2.6 million ($3.6 million) to groups lobbying against the death penalty in America.

Libya is Europe’s Job

By Don Snow

Obama tells Merkel that Gaddafi needs to leave

By the White House

From the White House:  Readout of President Obama’s Call with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany

EU’s response to Arab Revolutions: ” the best thing we can do is to listen”

By Catherine Ashton, Interenational Herald Tribune

From Catherine Ashton, Interenational Herald Tribune:  There is a time to speak and a time to listen. After visiting Egypt and Tunisia over the past 10 days, I am convinced that the best thing we can do is to listen.

Italy’s treaty with Libya may impede cooperation with NATO and EU

By Christopher Emsden, the Wall Street Journal

From Christopher Emsden, the Wall Street Journal:  As is well known, Italy and Libya signed a Treaty on Friendship in Benghazi in the summer of 2008, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rolled out the red carpet for [Col. Moammar] Gadhafi’s visit to Rome last year, even allowing the Libyan leader to openly proselytize a selected […]

Putin Questions Europe’s Foreign and Energy Policies

By Stephen Castle, the New York Times

From Stephen Castle, the New York Times:  Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia warned European officials on Thursday that uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East could produce governments hostile to the West, and he criticized the European Union’s energy policy.

UK urges pressure on Gaddafi, EU weighs intervention

By Adrian Croft and Justyna Pawlak, Reuters

SecGen calls for emergency NATO meeting on Libya

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  What is happening in Libya is of great concern to all of us. It’s a crisis in our immediate neighbourhood.

Commander of NATO Training Mission Afghanistan addresses EU

By William B. Caldwell, NATO Training Mission Afghanistan

From William B. Caldwell, NATO Training Mission Afghanistan:  Police professionals of EU nations have qualities that make them invaluable to the police training mission. Their strength does not lie in their nations’ GDPs…but in their remarkable people. EUPOL possesses and trains the ministerial level expertise in criminal investigation, intelligence-led policing, anti-corruption capabilities, judicial cooperation and coordination, […]

NATO’s military commander visits allied forces in Kosovo

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  Admiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander United States European Command travelled to Kosovo on Friday, February 18th to visit KFOR troops and receive an update on current operations.