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NATO cannot be strong if democracy is weak
I recall sitting next to Viktor Orbán at a dinner in Budapest in the early days of the war in Kosovo. It was spring 1999, and I asked Orbán why his government supported the NATO intervention despite considerable public opposition. Without pause, the prime minister — a year into his first time on the job — replied that it was important for...
Poland tries to end constitutional crisis ahead of NATO summit
WARSAW — Poland’s parliament on Thursday rushed through a law reforming the functioning of the top constitutional court in an effort to defuse an issue that has poisoned the country’s relations with its allies ahead of the NATO summit starting in the capital Friday. Poland has been embroiled for months in a constitutional crisis over...
John Kerry in Ukraine ahead of NATO summit
Secretary of State John Kerry was in Ukraine on Thursday to reassure the country’s leaders of United States’ support in the territorial dispute with Russia. Kerry was in Kiev ahead of the NATO summit in Warsaw, according the an AP report. The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine as well as the overall situation on NATO’s...
Angela Merkel: Eastern Europe needs NATO assurances
Russia’s actions in Ukraine have left NATO’s Eastern allies “deeply unsettled,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday as she justified the Alliance’s planned deployment of four battalions in the Baltic states and Poland. Addressing the lower house of the German parliament, Merkel said “trust had been lost” with Moscow...
How Brexit hurts NATO
What a difference a day makes. On June 23, 17.4 million British voters cast their ballot in favor of leaving the European Union. And while they represent a tiny 0.14 percent of the 880.9 million population of NATO member countries, their vote radically shifts the focus of the Alliance’s Warsaw summit this Friday and Saturday and will shape...
The trouble with referendums
After Britain’s decision to leave the European Union via popular referendum last month, political turmoil ensued. But don’t let the near-collapse of the British government make you think governments will be dissuaded from using this form of supposedly direct democracy in future: Referendums are more popular than ever. In fact,...
‘We believe in Europe’
These aren’t the easiest days for a united Europe. Both Eastern and Western Europe are suffering from Brexit fever. The destiny of those who want to be out has been decided — just like the destiny of those who want be in. But it is not a time for despair. It is a time for unity, responsibility and vision. A time to understand how we got to...
Günther Oettinger urges action against Spain and Portugal over deficits
The European Commission must sanction Spain and Portugal for breaching deficit rules “if [it] wants to keep its credibility,” Günther Oettinger, the bloc’s digital economy commissioner, told the Bild newspaper. “Both countries have not respected their self-imposed budget obligations in 2015. I think that if the Commission wants to keep its...
Is Europe being left behind in nuclear energy development?
Brexit has taken most of the column inches recently throughout Europe, but amongst the ever changing tectonic plates of European geopolitics, day-to-day governance on a range of issues continues at pace. None are more important and potentially critical to the European energy sector than the future of nuclear development – both new build and plant...
Brexit roadmap: A guide to what happens next
Britain’s referendum on EU membership answered one question but raised a lot of others — from who will next lead the U.K. to what relationship it will have with Europe to how the union itself will retool for the future. The biggest question of all is how Brexit will actually happen, once Britain formally gives notice it is leaving the EU....
