Chief EU Diplomat Restates Europe’s Commitment to Afghanistan
Deutsche Welle April 21, 2008 Javier Solana, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, reiterated Europe’s commitment to “the long haul” in Afghanistan during a visit to Kabul. more
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Russia, European Union, and United States are Losing Central Asia to China
Turkish Weekly April 11, 2008 EU-Central Asian forum opened in Ashkhabad. Foreign ministers of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan will discuss the Central Asian Partnership Strategy with EU commissars. The document defining the strategy is somewhat amorphous but it is better than what Russia has which is nothing. Russia does not have any strategy […]
Full speed ahead
The Prague Post April 9, 2008 For Czech policymakers, no recent issue has been more paramount than the United States’ plans to extend its European missile-defense shield by erecting a radar base some 90 kilometers (56 miles) southwest of Prague. more
Czech Republic, U.S. Agree to Missile Defense Radar Installation
Media Newswire April 11, 2008 Advanced tracking radar technology -– key to protecting central European nations against long-range ballistic missiles launched from trouble spots –- will be installed in the Czech Republic by 2012. The stationing of the radar there is critical to the unfolding of a larger, but limited missile defense plan for Europe […]
Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Boston Globe April 9, 2008 A US counterterrorism policy aimed at obtaining more information about foreign visitors to the United States is driving a wedge through the European Union, prompting a group of largely former communist countries in the east to defy the continental government in Brussels. more