Posted on 04 March 2010.
By: Pavol Demeš
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — When Aleksander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus, recently began a campaign to intimidate and punish members of the country’s disobedient Polish community, he opened a new front not only with neighboring Poland, but also with the EU as a whole. That challenge must now be met head on. Lukashenko knows [...]
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Posted in Central and Eastern Europe, European Union, NATO, Russia, Transatlantic Relations, Transatlantic Take, United States
Posted on 04 March 2010.
By: Bruce Stokes
The US is less engaged in the response to Greece’s crisis than it should be. For the US, and the EU, a role for the IMF would be good. In recent weeks, the Greek debt crisis now embroiling European bond markets has been seized upon by conservative commentators in the United States as evidence of [...]
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Posted in Economics, European Union