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Wilson Interviewed by US Embassies and Consulates in Germany on the Munich Security Conference

New Atlanticist
May 6, 2025

Is Merz’s double-take chancellor vote a sign of things to come in Germany?

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Jörn Fleck and Jurek Wille

It took two rounds of voting in the Bundestag to elect Friedrich Merz chancellor, a sign of division unprecedented in modern German history.

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Wilson Interviewed by US Embassies and Consulates in Germany on the Munich Security Conference

New Atlanticist
Feb 19, 2025

Germany’s economy has gone from engine to anchor. Here’s what the next chancellor faces.

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Piotr Arak

Revitalizing growth in Germany’s economy, which appears increasingly mired in stagnation, will demand urgent action from the next chancellor.

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Wilson Interviewed by US Embassies and Consulates in Germany on the Munich Security Conference

New Atlanticist
Feb 4, 2025

The next German chancellor must lead from the front, not the middle, on European security

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Rachel Rizzo, James Batchik

From support for Ukraine to defense spending, German leaders would be wise to take the phrase Führung aus der Mitte permanently out of their vocabulary.

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Germany’s digital minister on Europe’s digital competitiveness

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What to expect from Germany’s next government

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Feb 19, 2016

Wilson Interviewed by US Embassies and Consulates in Germany on the Munich Security Conference

By Damon Wilson

Watch the full interview here.

Eastern Europe Germany

In the News

Feb 18, 2016

Munich Security Conference Cyber Dinner Event Featured in Washington Post

By Atlantic Council

Read the full article here.

Cybersecurity Germany

EconoGraphics

Feb 16, 2016

Dreaming Big: Size Matters

By Global Business and Economics

Why are Google, Apple or Facebook American-born but not European? Concerns about Europe’s lack of innovative start-ups prompted the European Commission (EC) to launch the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, aimed at bolstering entrepreneurship culture.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Feb 3, 2016

Rallying the Transatlantic Community Toward a Greater Purpose

By Damon Wilson

A new era of US leadership can lead an effort to help adapt, revitalize, and defend an international order that advances security, democratic governance, and prosperity, says Atlantic Council’s Damon Wilson Europe is in crisis. The continent today faces a confluence of crises far more profound than most realize. As a result, the United States […]

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In the News

Jan 21, 2016

Aslund in Financial Times: Germany Is the Problem in Nord Stream 2 Drama

By Anders Åslund

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USS Porter and Romania's ROS Marcellariu training in the Black Sea, July 14, 2015

NATOSource

Jan 21, 2016

Romania Wants Permanent NATO Black Sea Force

By Transitions Online and EurasiaNet

From Transitions Online: At NATO’s July summit, Bucharest will propose that a regular multinational naval force patrol the area.

Central Europe Germany

EconoGraphics

Dec 16, 2015

Not All Bailouts are Created Equally

By Global Business and Economics

Europe has virtually emerged from the 2008 crisis, and it is worth comparing the various paths countries took to recovery.

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Dec 16, 2015

Riley: Challenging Putin’s Pipeline Strategy

By Alan Riley

Global Energy Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Alan Riley writes for the Wall Street Journal on the European Union’s Central and Eastern European members’ opposition to Moscow’s Berlin-backed plan to boost its energy leverage:

Eastern Europe Germany

EconoGraphics

Dec 9, 2015

QE to Infinity

By Global Business and Economics

On December Third, European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi, announced that quantitative easing (QE) would continue as the EU marches along its road to recovery.

Economy & Business European Union

New Atlanticist

Nov 30, 2015

US Response to Migrant Crisis an ‘Existential Issue’

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Former State Department official, R. Nicholas Burns, says United States needs to do more to help Syrian war refugees Americans need to repudiate the “deeply offensive” anti-migrant rhetoric coming from Republican presidential frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson that runs contrary to the founding principles of the United States of America, said R. Nicholas Burns, […]

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