Atlantic Partnership

Spiegel
March 8, 2010

Trans-Atlantic security needs have changed fundamentally in the last two decades. The East-West confrontation has ended, and Moscow now shares many interests with NATO. It is time for the alliance to open its doors to Russia, say German defense experts Volker Rühe, Klaus Naumann, Frank Elbe and Ulrich Weisser.
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The Wall Street Journal
March 8, 2010

Germany expressed support for creating a “European Monetary Fund” that could bail out indebted nations in the euro zone, showing how Greece’s debt crisis is forcing Europe to rethink the institutional design of its common-currency area.
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The New York Times
March 7, 2010

QUIMPER, France — HB-Henriot is one of the oldest companies in France, an artisanal producer of faïence — hand-painted glazed earthenware — since 1690. The company was founded here in Brittany for its waterpower and riverbed clay.
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Euractiv.com
March 5, 2010

Beyond the headlines declaring a growing transatlantic divide, Europe and the United Sates still share the deepest and broadest economic partnership in the world and need to forge an innovation action plan rather than dwell on inconclusive debates, said US Ambassador to the EU William Kennard yesterday (4 March) in Brussels.
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EuropeanVoice.com
March 5, 2010

Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, is to present her plans for the Union’s future diplomatic corps to member states’ foreign ministers in Cordoba, Spain, today. The European External Action Service (EEAS) will be the most controversial subject at the two-day informal meeting, at which ministers will discuss the Middle East, the Western Balkans and emerging actors in world politics such as China and Brazil.
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Politico
March 5, 2010

When Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Jerusalem on Monday, he will be just the latest senior Obama administration official to travel there in an almost continuous stream of high-level consultations aimed at keeping Israel and the United States “on the same page” about Iran, as Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry put it during his recent trip there.
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BBC
March 5, 2010

US President Barack Obama has pledged to cut the number and role of nuclear weapons in America’s national security strategy.
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Europe’s World
March 5, 2010

The globalised economy and the rise of new economic giants demand a radically reformed international system, says Robert Hutchings. But it will nevertheless fall to Europe and America to fashion these new structures for global governance.
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The New York Times
March 4, 2010

BRUSSELS — During tense talks on an international data-sharing deal last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the U.S. secretary of state, did something probably none of her predecessors needed to do: she picked up the phone and called the European Parliament.
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The Economist
March 4, 2010

DOES “Central Europe” exist? It depends on the political climate. Amid worries that France and Germany are stitching up the European Union’s decision-making, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are reviving their ties and pushing shared ideas on energy security and relations with the east.
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