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European Council meeting on the Brexit negotiation
March 26, 2018
On Friday, the European Council of the EU, meeting in its Article 50 configuration—that is, without UK Prime Minister Theresa May—welcomed the agreement of EU and UK...
Di Maio and Salvini
March 8, 2018
On Sunday, Europe breathed a collective sigh of relief when the German Social Democratic Party announced its members had approved its coalition agreement with Angela Merkel’s...
SPD headquarters in Berlin
March 5, 2018
While Europe contemplated the stunning and troubling results in Sunday’s election in Italy, it could take some comfort in knowing there will soon be, more than four months...
Picture of German party leaders
February 14, 2018
Updated on February 14 at 2pm. Last Wednesday, more than four months after the Sept. 24, 2017 election, after a failed attempt by Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union...
(from left to right) Ambassador Audra Plepyte, Permanent Representative of Lithuania; Ambassador Janis Mazeiks, Permanent Representative of Latvia to the UN; Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University and former Ambassador of Ukraine to the UN; and Ambassador Olof Skloog, Permanent Representative of Sweden to the UN
February 2, 2018
After the 2008 Russian-Georgian war and the more recent conflict in Crimea in 2014, many are asking: are we now in a ‘new normal’ for European security architecture? “The...
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
January 2, 2018
After the Catalan parliament voted to constitute a republic as an independent state on October 27, the Spanish Senate authorized the government of Prime Minister Mariano ...
Logo - Future of Europe
December 21, 2017
Jolyon Howorth, Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale, wrote a policy report, For a True European Defence Union. Professor Howorth...