Washington Times March 31, 2008 French commitments to send 1,000 additional soldiers to Afghanistan may be conditional on U.S. support for the European Union’s defense plan that some say will shift power away from U.S. and British interests. more
Business Travel News March 28, 2008 The European Union and United States on May 15 plan to begin negotiations on the second stage of the Open Skies agreement, the EU announced today. According to the agreement, signed last year, second-stage negotiations must commence within 60 days of the first-phase enactment, which goes into effect next […]
The Weekly Standard March 31, 2008 John McCain’s first major foreign policy speech as the presumed Republican nominee for president, delivered last week in Los Angeles, was widely viewed as an effort to distance himself from President George W. Bush. The Washington Post said his agenda “contrasts sharply” with the “go-it-alone approach” of the Bush […]
Bloomberg March 31, 2008 The spirit of Donald Rumsfeld is stalking NATO: From the war in Afghanistan to confronting the Kremlin, the U.S. once again has more support from “new” Europe than from “old.” more
Denver Post March 28, 2008 A divided NATO will not extend a blueprint for eventual membership to Ukraine and Georgia at the alliance’s summit in Bucharest next week. Instead, that gathering will focus on increasing European troop totals in Afghanistan and discussing a bold proposal by President Bush to link U.S., NATO and Russian missile […]