Founded in December 2007 by German students at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, the club has already reached a broad public by organizing several events at SAIS and publishing a bi-weekly newsletter. Its aim is to create a network of German and Germany interested students, professionals and institutions in Washington D.C., Bologna and Germany. For more information, please click here. On April 14, 2008 Bozidar Djelic, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, spoke at CTR on this topic. Click here for his presentation. On April 7, 2008 Paul Luif, Senior Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, spoke at CTR on this topic. Click here for his presentation. The membership candidacies of Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia and the Membership Action Plan qualifications of Ukraine and Georgia will be decided at the NATO Summit meeting in Bucharest in April 2008. Read CTR Senior Fellow Michael Haltzel's testimony before the Helsinki Commission on this topic here. Read CTR Director Dan Hamilton's article in the March issue of Current History here. Will a Democrat in the White House positively affect the state of transatlantic relations? Democrats are more international, but are they also more European? CTR's Esther Brimmer comments here for Deutsche Welle (in German).
CTR's Rana Deep Islam examines here the different policy implications of a possible Democratic Administration.
This publication by the Robert Schuman Foundation offers unique analyses and maps along with vital data on Europe, just as the ratification process of the Lisbon Treaty is underway and the French Presidency of the European Union is about to start. Essay authors include French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Junckerhave, and CTR's Esther Brimmer. Click here for more. Click here for inaugural CTR Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow Dr. Luis Marques' presentation on January 28. The Honorable João de Vallera, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States, gave welcoming remarks.
Despite Europe's yearning to build a 21st century moat to keep its neighbours at bay, it's the soaring global demand for commodities of those neighbors that has emerged as a key source of growth for the core of Europe. CTR Non-Resident Fellow Joseph Quinlan comments in the Financial Times here on the economic growth of Europe's periphery.
New transatlantic coalitions are pushing the Bush Administration on climate change. The newest front is airplane emissions. What to do? Read CTR Director Dan Hamilton's piece for the San Francisco Chronicle here. To read the Santa Barbara Consensus on climate change by leading Californians and European opinion leaders, click here. On December 14, CTR's Esther Brimmer gave a speech on Lafayette's legacy at a conference of the French-American Foundation. Click here for the speech text or here for her interview with Laurent Zecchini in Le Monde (in French). Tiny Slovenia assumes the presidency of the European Union for six months. CTR Fellow Elizabeth Pond outlines its priorities here. As tensions mount again over Kosovo, CTR Fellow Beth Pond reports on "perhaps the boldest effort at fundamental reconciliation the region has ever seen," a collaborative project by historians and educators from a dozen Balkan nations to review and present their history. Click here for her article.
CTR, in partnership with The Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin (GPPi) will launch a new research and dialogue program entitled "Raising the bar: Towards enhanced cooperation and coherence in transatlantic governance of natural disaster relief and preparedness" beginning in January 2008. The research and dialogue program is supported by a two-year "Transatlantic Methods for Handling Global Challenges" grant from the European Commission.
27 EU leaders have approved a new treaty that replaces the effort to establish an EU constitutional treaty some years ago. It must be ratified by January 2009. How is this treaty different? What does it mean for Europe? Click here for the Top Ten answers.
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