On Friday, September 15 the German Marshall Fund (GMF) hosted a debate on biofuels and indirect land use change (ILUC) between Tim Searchinger, transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund and Bruce Dale, professor at Michigan State University. The debate was moderated by Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post. To watch video of the event [...]

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On September 24   the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution aimed at slowing the spread of nuclear weapons and reducing global stockpiles. GMF’s John Glenn discusses what this decision means for future transatlantic relations and cooperation.

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ANKARA — In the shadow of the White House announcement that U.S. President Barack Obama would abandon the missile defense system planned for Eastern Europe in favor of a ship-based missile defense system, the Pentagon notified Congress of a possible $7.8 billion sale of Patriot PAC-3 antimissile batteries and related equipment to Turkey, the only [...]

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BRUSSELS — President Obama’s shelving of the Bush administration’s missile defense plans makes sense in addressing the immediate Iranian threat. It has nevertheless created a crisis of confidence in Central and Eastern Europe.   The crisis’ roots lie in policy mistakes made over the course of the past decade. One was assuming that the issue [...]

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BRATISLAVA — The decision of the Bush administration to place missile shield installations in the Czech Republic and Poland was met with reluctance and even opposition by many in Central and Eastern Europe from the outset. Even in the two countries’ policy communities it caused considerable turmoil, as advocates of the missile shield risked a [...]

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WASHINGTON — It would be understandable if the Poles started to develop a complex about the Obama administration’s treatment of their country.   To mark the 70th anniversary commemoration of the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1, the White House originally planned to send former defense secretary William Perry as the representative for the [...]

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BERLIN — As Germany heads for federal elections this Sunday, President Obama’s decision to cancel plans for a land-based missile defense program in Poland and the Czech Republic met with unanimous applause, not just from Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger, Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, but in fact across all the parties. It was [...]

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