Ray Suarez, author of The Holy Vote recently toured four European cities with GMF talking about religion and politics in the United States.   You can read a general readout from his tour and also read an interview with Suarez on Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour here. One thing that wasn’t necessarily talked about in depth on [...]

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…described the French elections for a Washington, D.C., audience recently. You can also listen to an interview with him conducted by GMF’s John K. Glenn as part of GMF’s podcast series.

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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Rome Treaty, which represents the founding of the European economic community, Europe has much to be proud of – uniting nation-states to overcome old rivalries, defeat communism, and extend peace, security, and the rule of law to Eastern Europe. Europe’s economic successes – integration, the euro, [...]

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François Bayrou, candidate in the presidential race from the center-right, is threatening both Royal and Sarkozy. Polls show a consistent and striking rise in voting intentions in his favor: according to recent figures, Bayrou would get 23.5% of the votes in the first round, right behind Royal at 25.5% and Sarkozy at 27%. According to [...]

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Yesterday, on French public TV, Nicolas Sarkozy, current interior Minister and candidate of the Conservative party UMP in the presidential race, argued in favor of the establishment of a new”Ministry for immigration and national identity”. This would be one of his first decisions as newly elected President. Such an idea triggered a real debate. One [...]

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GMF is currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a program for young leaders from the United States and Europe to travel the opposite continent to learn more about the transatlantic relationship and the issues affecting it. One of this year’s American fellows, Sam Matheny, will be blogging about his fellowship along [...]

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Joshua Kucera has written an interesting piece on the emergence of a new U.S. strategic policy for the Black Sea. Of course, there are limitations for the U.S. in dealing with this region at a time when Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran are priorities, however, as this article suggests, once the U.S. has the opportunity it [...]

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