Euromediterranean Partnership Commentary

Blank Checks

Doug Bandow | Jul 20, 2009
Europe will never have its own military capabilities unless America stops subsidizing its defense.

More Friends, More War

Doug Bandow | Jul 13, 2009
Expanding NATO doesn’t improve American security. It antagonizes Russia and could lead to war.

Slow Train to Brussels

Kathleen R. McNamara | Jun 25, 2009
The EU’s response to the economic crisis is limited because it has to be. The union has always balanced national interests with supranational ones.

European Disunion

Doug Bandow | Aug 05, 2008
Why Europe will watch as America and China dominate the next century. Ireland’s failure to ratify a new European-integration treaty highlights the disconnect between the EU’s superpower ambitions and popular opinion.

A Mediterranean Membership Club

Leon Hadar | May 21, 2007
The United States should view Nicolas Sarkozy’s Mediterranean Union initiative as an opportunity for renewed translatlantic cooperation and burden-sharing in the Middle East.

Making France a Power for the Future, Part I

The National Interest | Apr 17, 2007
TNI Exclusive: Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s next president, discusses his views on France’s role within the European Union in a conversation with The National Interest and Politique Internati

Towards a Truer European Union?

Marisa Morrison
Raffaello Pantucci
| Nov 20, 2006
At Friday’s EU-Russia summit, EU diplomats face the humiliating prospect of a complete breakdown in discussions—due in part to European disunion on key foreign policy matters.

Europe after the 'Non' and 'Nee'

Tim Potier | Jun 07, 2005
Only thirteen months ago the mood across Europe was so different, as fireworks lit up the skies to mark the accession of 10 new countries to the European Union - overwhelmingly former Communist countries from Central Europe.

Thinking Beyond NATO

E. Wayne Merry | Feb 25, 2004
The Iraq conflict ignited transatlantic tensions smoldering since the end of the Cold War.

The Core That Wasn't

Martin Hutchinson | Feb 25, 2004
Has Britain joined France and German in a "super core" that will dominate the EU for years to come? Not for long, writes Martin Hutchinson.

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