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How long will it take Russia to reconstitute its military? 7-8 years, @MassDara tells @HenryJFoy.
Tune in live now: nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1OwxWNamL…
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❝The beginning of liberation of Russia from Putin's fascism won't start before 🇺🇦flags raised in Sevastopol, period. Anything else is wishful thinking. It's psychological. You have to kill the idea of the empire in the minds of Russians.❞
@Kasparov63 @vmsalama #NATOPublicForum
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GMF is pleased to announce that @ClaudMajor, leading German political scientist and expert on transatlantic security, will join the organization in March as senior vice president overseeing transatlantic security initiatives and as a member of the executive team.
Learn more: bit.ly/3DHQIoN
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❝The beginning of liberation of Russia from Putin's fascism will not start before Ukrainian flags raised in Sevastopol, period. Anything else is wishful thinking. It's psychological. You have to kill the idea of the empire in the minds of Russians.❞
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❝We all agree that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance...We all agree that NATO's door is open to new members and that it is for the NATO allies and Ukraine to decide when they should join, not Moscow,❞ @jensstoltenberg, @NATO Secretary General tells @helenecooper.
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❝To be free again, it's mandatory Ukraine wins... This war is a war about values... Ukrainians are trying to avoid casualties. Russians deliberately attack civilian population. War on values cannot end at the negotiating table.❞ #NATOPublicForum
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❝From 1999 to 2021 the European allies of NATO increased their defense investment by 23.9%. In the same period, the US by 65.7%, Russia by 192%, and China by 592%. The point is that the threat is real and we have to do more.❞ @kajakallas #NATOSummit
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The 2019 #YTILI #fellowship application is now open. Don't miss this unique opportunity to gain the skills, tools, and networks needed to take your venture to the next level! Apply now: bit.ly/2srNn8D #entrepreneurship #GEW2018 #startups #innovation
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"Challenges evolve and they shape shift, so the values and commitments must not. That's the most important thing." -@SecretaryPete #MarshallPlan75 #GMFat50
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"We see democratic #Belarus at the centerpiece of European security," asserts Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya at #WSF2022.
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"Knowing that the resulting features of high-quality infrastructure can stand not just as pillars of transportation, but cathedrals of democracy." -@SecretaryPete #MarshallPlan75 #GMFat50
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"Ukraine must not lose. Russia must not win... Ukraine must win, and this means that Russia must lose on the Ukrainian battlefield," claims @n_roettgen at #WSF2022.
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❝Ukraine victory includes three things liberation: reparation, justice, and territories. Justice is a very important because that's the way to send a very clear message that all war criminals will be brought to justice.❞ #NATOPublicForum
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"Fifty years after the creation of the German Marshall Fund; seventy-five years after the Marshall Plan is of course very timely." U.S. Transportation @SecretaryPete speaks on the significance of these anniversaries. #MarshallPlan75 #GMFat50
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We tend to overestimate these words about humiliation, hurting Putin's feelings, or if we just talk to him nicely, he'll do a deal. It's about interests, argues Michael @McFaul #BrusselsForum @IQ2US
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❝To be free again, it's mandatory Ukraine wins... This war is a war about values... Ukrainians are trying to avoid casualties. Russians deliberately attack civilian population. War on values cannot end at the negotiating table.❞ #NATOPublicForum
@Kasparov63 @vmsalama
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"I am pleased to announce that the United States has accepted High Representative @JosepBorrellF's proposal to create a U.S.-EU dialogue on China." -@SecPompeo, @statedept #BrusselsForum
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.@nathanlawkc joins our #BrusselsForum discussion, "Women, Youth, and Exiles: The New Faces of the Global Struggle for Democracy," happening tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 2:30 p.m. CEST. Watch live at brusselsforum.org.
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GMF congratulates its president, Dr. @KDonfried, on her nomination to serve as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs to the Biden administration. Read our official statement: bit.ly/2OSVAi3
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Today, @ClaudMajor, leading German political scientist and expert on transatlantic security, joins @gmfus as senior vice president overseeing transatlantic security initiatives and as a member of the executive team.
Dr. Major brings with her a distinguished career in defense and security policy, with a focus on NATO, European security, and transatlantic relations.
Learn more: bit.ly/3DHQIoN
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GMF names Heather A. Conley, currently Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic at @CSIS, as next president. Read more: bit.ly/2ZS7CNV
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❝We need to restore not only Ukrainian infrastructure, we need to restore the belief of the Ukrainian people that rule of law is essential, democracy is working, and justice is possible,❞ @ccl_ua's Nobel laureate @avalaina said in conversation with GMF and @philea_eu.
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Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya, leader of democratic Belarus, will speak at the 16th edition of #BrusselsForum on June 15 under the theme "Reimagining Democracy." Stay tuned here and register now: bit.ly/2021-brussels-forum
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GMF looks forward to welcoming @PeteButtigieg, former mayor of South Bend, to the #BrusselsForum virtual stage. Register now: brusselsforum.org
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"Taiwan is a democracy, there is no doubt about it" says @MOFA_Taiwan at #BrusselsForum.
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GMF is pleased to announce that we have appointed @BonnieGlaser as director of @GMFAsia and @LauraLThornton as director of @SecureDemocracy. Learn more here: bit.ly/3ukLINd
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"If all of us want more security, you cannot say to the armed forces, it's your problem," says @CMC_NATO Admiral Rob Bauer.
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Introducing "China Global," a new GMF podcast hosted by @GMFAsia Program Director @BonnieGlaser that will explore the different facets of #China's foreign policy and what they mean for the rest of the world.
Stay tuned here for the release of episode one!
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Three words that come to mind on the #MarshallPlan: infrastructure, values, and recovery. @SecretaryPete #MarshallPlan75 #GMFat50
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In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan—an audacious, innovative strategy that tackled the most pressing challenges of its time—GMF + @kfw_int hosted @SecretaryPete + @c_lindner for a discussion on its legacy.
Photos by @KfW | Thorsten Futh #MarshallPlan75 #GMFat50
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Thanks for joining us for #BrusselsForum! Videos, transcripts & more up at brusselsforum.org
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A breakdown of how the #Kremlin employs information warfare across all aspects of their national power + a preview of author @selectedwisdom's upcoming book, "Messing With The Enemy:" bit.ly/2IDhphi
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Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya joins #BrusselsForum for a conversation on the global struggle for democracy happening today at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 2:30 p.m. CEST. Watch live at brusselsforum.org.
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"Only by having a multilateral approach, only by having transatlantic cooperation, or even democratic countries around the world to work together, we can conquer the recession of global democracy." -@nathanlawkc #BrusselsForum brusselsforum.org
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We are pleased to announce that @staceyabrams, founder of @fairfightaction, will join this year's virtual #BrusselsForum for a conversation with GMF President @KDonfried on U.S. global leadership: brusselsforum.org
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Join GMF for a conversation with Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya, moderated by @JonDKatz, on how Belarusians are impacted, adapting, fighting, and working against Putin and Lukashenka’s war in Ukraine. Details below: nitter.app/i/spaces/1BdxYwgAZnlGX
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On Ukraine joining NATO, "Russia should not have a veto power. That should be up to the 32 allies to decide," @USNATO Rep @USAmbNATO explains. #BrusselsForum
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❝We actually now have the plans in place for defending every inch our alliance.❞ #NATOSummit
Listen as @CMC_NATO explains:
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"Let me be very, very clear: We can never, ever again, ever again create a dependency on Russian fossil fuels. That can never happen again." -@TimmermansEU #BrusselsForum
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"We tried to learn as much as possible from [Russia's war on Ukraine], so Taiwan can be better prepared if another authoritarian country, that is China, wants to launch a war against Taiwan," says @MOFA_Taiwan at #BrusselsForum.
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📣 GMF Senior Vice President, Transatlantic Security @ClaudMajor is listed in the @politico, @welt and @BusinessInsider inaugural Power List as part of Germany’s Top 50 most influential personalities.
🔗 Read her full portrait: buff.ly/dONXD4v
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At #WSF2022, @IgnatiusPost asks @Tsihanouskaya what can the Belarussian opposition do to help #Ukraine: "We are preparing our partisans to act decisively at this very moment."
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"When the picture of huge demonstrations disappeared, we felt that attention was decreasing a little bit...it gave the regime a sense of impunity." -@Tsihanouskaya #BrusselsForum brusselsforum.org
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Former US Ambassador to Russia Michael @McFaul will join this year's #BrusselsForum stage. Register + watch live at brusselsforum.org beginning June 27.
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I think in the long run Europe, and the world, and the climate, by the way, are "all going to be better off" from this isolationism, argues Michael @McFaul. #BrusselsForum @IQ2US
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Michael @McFaul: "Isolation is the better strategy to achieve our national and international interests than all the alternatives." #BrusselsForum
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Joseph Wu, @MOFA_Taiwan: "There is no other country or no other democracy that is having such close economic ties with China, and at the same time, facing such a strong military threat from China." #BrusselsForum
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On the plane hijacking: "We never could imagine that the regime could be so cruel toward its own people." -@Tsihanouskaya #BrusselsForum brusselsforum.org
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On Friday at 9:00 a.m. EST, join GMF's @JonDKatz and @kristineberz as they co-host a conversation with @Tsihanouskaya: nitter.app/i/spaces/1BdxYwgAZnlGX
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New emerging threats to the United States are not conventional military threats. Senator @ChrisMurphyCT discusses the need for a broader conversation about how we resource our defenses amid #Coronavirus with GMF's @Julie_C_Smith: bit.ly/2VfCOBB
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"Now there is a consensus achieved in our country, that Nord Stream 2 will never become operational. So it's the destruction of an infrastructure that has never been in use or is in use no longer," says @n_roettgen at #WSF2022.
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"This moment of reckoning could end up becoming a defining advertisement for the American model," writes Senator @ChrisMurphyCT for @ForeignAffairs: foreignaffairs.com/articles/…
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Contrary to disinformation, Ukraine is not a hopelessly corrupt country. It is winning a two-front war against Russia and against corruption.
@JoshRudes @NormEisen & Cameron Bertron lay out how stakeholders can support Ukraine's anti-corruption efforts: bit.ly/3pfBNeU
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Join us tomorrow for the 16th edition of #BrusselsForum featuring remarks by @VP Kamala Harris, featured speakers Sviatlana @Tsihanouskaya, @CeciliaERouse, @ArminLaschet, & many more throughout the week.
Register now to watch beginning at 10:00 a.m. CEST: bit.ly/2021-brussels-forum
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New @SecureDemocracy tool to track Russian disinformation on Twitter launching today: bit.ly/2tX2iDT. Bringing propaganda to light.
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GMF is pleased to announce that Gunnar Wiegand has joined as a visiting distinguished fellow in the Indo-Pacific program!
Welcome to GMF, @WiegandEU!
@GMFAsia
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"Putin operates in its own framework of rationality," asserts @juliaioffe at #BrusselsForum. During a conversation about the rationality of Russia's behavior, our panelists elaborated on the reasoning behind Putin's tactical objectives.
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Former Commanding General of @USArmyEurope @MarkHertling remembers his time in Germany and how it shaped his career following our recent discussion at October's #AUSA Annual Meeting. Watch the full video: bit.ly/2K46ziP #VeteransDay #WunderbarTogether
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"Russia is not going anywhere; it's going to be a European state, but Russia will need at least a decade, if not more, to sort itself out. In that time, it will be a threat to our security and we need to brace for that." @TimmermansEU #BrusselsForum
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.@FedericaMog responds to the question of the European Union's relevance today. Watch her full conversation with @markuspreiss live here → brussels.gmfus.org #BrusselsForum
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New piece just up from @MatthewRozsa in @Salon on Russian disinformation dashboard from @SecureDemocracy: salon.com/2017/08/02/this-we…
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We are pleased to announce that @jensstoltenberg, Secretary General of @NATO, will join the #BrusselsForum virtual stage on June 23 at 14:30 CET / 8:30 a.m. EDT. The discussion will be moderated by @markuspreiss. Watch live at brusselsforum.org.
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“I think the Chinese would be ill-advised to assume that if the U.S. did not intervene militarily in a Ukraine crisis, that means the U.S. would not intervene militarily in a Taiwan crisis,” @BonnieGlaser told @nytimes. “They really are different.” nyti.ms/3F8i0AA
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F-16 jets will be flying over Ukraine by this summer, @SecBlinken tells GMF President @HConleyGMF during their conversation at the NATO Public Forum.
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"There was a way to reach people that again did not ever involve watering down my values or policies, but really was just about making sure we found the humanity in one another." -@PeteButtigieg #BrusselsForum
Listen to the full discussion here: bit.ly/2Ue8rLc
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🗣️@Yatsenyuk_AP, Chair of @ksfopenukraine, explains that the only way to help Ukraine is to stay united and that we are running out of time. Putin only cares about actions. It's time to act and to win.
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"The strength of one democracy, depends on the strength of all democracies." -@VP Kamala Harris #BrusselsForum
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Joseph Wu, @MOFA_Taiwan: We must deal with the confrontation the between the U.S. and China and the changing dynamics in the transatlantic relationship. #BrusselsForum
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#Live from the Aspen-GMF Bucharest Forum 2022 with NATO Secretary-General @jensstoltenberg: "NATO continues to stand with #Ukraine for as long as it takes. We will not back down"
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🇭🇺 🇪🇺 In recent days, Viktor Orbán has mocked the rest of the EU with his diplomatic moves.
@DanielHegedus82 argues that in order to limit the damage, it is necessary to cut short Hungary’s Presidency of the Council of the EU. bit.ly/46iocEN
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"This is a battle against all of us, Western values. Putin will not stop at Ukraine." - @RepCohen #BrusselsForum
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Sensing the tide turning against #Turkey, Athens is making a major diplomatic comeback. “All this has buoyed #Athens & given a message that the EU & U.S. nowadays see Greece as very much a full member of the club,” GMF's @ian_lesser told @ForeignPolicy: bit.ly/3yLk8vB
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"We've seen the emergence of a new axis of evil between Russia and China and Iran and North Korea" former VP @Mike_Pence touches on the interconnectivity of international security at #BrusselsForum.
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🎧 LISTEN: @rosenbergerlm and @jamiemfly discuss Russia’s disinformation campaign and strategies to counteract. bit.ly/2uGlgOs
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On May 26 at 8:30 a.m. EDT, join @GMFAsia for a discussion on #Taiwan's future in international organizations. Ahead of the event, tweet us your questions using #GMFTaiwanForward.
Learn more: bit.ly/2T9O6sJ
Register now: bit.ly/GMF_TTF
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In light of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to key European capitals, @GMFAsia's @GarimaMo told @ThePrintIndia: “European leaders and policymakers are convinced by India’s position and understand the stand it has taken." (1/5) theprint.in/diplomacy/modis-…
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"People [are] the core of democracy, and the core of any resistance, and the core of any fight," @Tsihanouskaya says of the importance of investing in people power. #BrusselsForum
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Tomorrow at 11 a.m. EDT / 17:00 CET, @PeteButtigieg joins the #BrusselsForum virtual stage for a discussion with moderator @derekchollet. Register now: brusselsforum.org
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❝The business of NATO is to keep 1 billion citizens safe. Security is the foundation of prosperity. Security is the foundation of democracy. Security is the foundation of normal life for our citizens❞ #NATOSummit
@Mircea_Geoana @MunSecConf @FrankeBenedikt
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"I think the first thing is to not become #China's hype man. China is 10-feet tall, not 30-feet tall," @ChrisMurphyCT tells #WSF2022.
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.@EvelynNFarkas reacts to Trump's latest move to fund the wall: “It raises the question of whether the president is sufficiently committed to deterrence of Russia and security of U.S. personnel and U.S. interests in Europe as opposed to on our border.” thedailybeast.com/trump-raid…
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"Our goal is de-escalation and diplomacy. Simultaneously, the allies are focused on making sure that Russia understands that should they choose another path, the Alliance is prepared for all contingencies." -@USAmbNATO #RussiaCrisis
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.@RepCohen, @HopkoHanna, @martin_klus, @OdileRenaud, and @RaviReports discussed what a Marshall Plan for Ukraine should look like.
"A Marshall Plan [for Ukraine] is an instrument to make Ukraine a successful story for everyone, a successful story for democracy," Hanna said.
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GMF proudly congratulates @KDonfried on her appointment as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Today we celebrate her many achievements as GMF president and reflect on her leadership, strategic vision, and commitment to the transatlantic relationship.
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The geopolitical turmoil of 2022 presents a multitude of challenges for the transatlantic community. Divided into four chapters, Transatlantic Trends provides a detailed picture of public opinion on core and contemporary issues.
Explore now! gmfus.org/news/transatlantic…
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🗣️ "The private sector has to understand that they're part of the solution." #NATOPublicForum.
@CMC_NATO Admiral Rob Bauer reasserted the importance of cooperation with the private sector, during his conversation with GMF President @HConleyGMF.
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.@PeteButtigieg: There is a challenging balance for people of good intentions in the US recognizing that Black voices are and ought to be leading this protest and this movement in so many ways, & yet recognizing that they can't be asked to carry this burden alone. #BrusselsForum
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"There is no way for the United States to compete with China without a domestic industrial policy," @ChrisMurphyCT says at #BrusselsForum.
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"I welcome the fact that Russia and the United States are now sitting down, starting to negotiate how to reach an agreement on arms control for nuclear weapons. That is of great importance for all of us." -@NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg #BrusselsForum
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.@VP Kamala Harris reaffirms that America is back and committed to reengaging with Europe. Watch live at brusselsforum.org. #BrusselsForum
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.@jan_techau shares his thoughts on #German burden sharing within #NATO with @kbennhold: “First we said 2 percent, but we didn’t really mean it. Then we said 1.5 percent, and it turns out we didn’t really mean that either.” (via @nytimes): nytimes.com/2019/03/19/world…
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GMF President @KDonfried has been presented by Ambassador Wouters with the “Commander in the Order of the Crown” distinction for services rendered to Belgium, awarded by The King of the Belgians. What an honor!
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