Posted on 08 February 2012. Tags: aerospace manufacturers, Aircraft, Aviation, Berlin, Business/Finance, Canard aircraft, Carrier-based aircraft, Cassidian, chief, Dassault Rafale, defense aerospace, defense contractor, EADS, EUR, Eurofighter, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH, Eurofighter Typhoon, Europe, F-35, F-35 Lightning II, Fighter aircraft, Finance, France, French government, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Germany, india, Indian MRCA competition, Italy, Japan, JAS 39 Gripen, Jet aircraft, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Mumbai, Natural Disaster, Nicolas Sarkozy, Politics, President, program officer, Rafale, Royal Air Force, Sarah Raine, Spain, Stealth aircraft, Switzerland, technology transfers, United Kingdom, USD, Washington
By: Sarah Raine
BERLIN/MUMBAI–The announcement last week that India was entering into exclusive negotiations with Dassault for its Rafale fighter jet represents a major coup for the French defense contractor and for Nicolas Sarkozy. The embattled French president was evidently relieved by the prospect of the Rafale’s first ever foreign sale in a deal worth over US$10 billion, [...]
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Posted on 06 February 2012.
By: Michal Baranowski
WARSAW / WASHINGTON – For hundreds of years, Poland suffered from an overbearing Germany that trampled on the rights of the Polish nation, occupied the country, and, at times, worked to extinguish the Polish nation-state entirely. No wonder that there is a residue of skepticism and caution in Poland when it comes to relations with [...]
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Posted in Central and Eastern Europe, European Union, Germany, Poland, Poland, slider, Transatlantic Take
Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: Afghan government, Afghanistan, Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, Asia, Barack Obama, Europe, France, Francois Hollande, German Marshall Fund of the United States, International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force, Kapisa Province, Military, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Obama administration, Politics, President, Taliban, war fatigue, War in Afghanistan, War/Conflict
By: Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer
PARIS–President Barack Obama’s announcement last June of an accelerated U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan reopened debates in many European countries over when their soldiers should return from that unpopular war. French President Nicolas Sarkozy followed a few days later with an announcement that French troops would be reduced “in a proportional manner and in a calendar [...]
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Posted on 26 January 2012. Tags: Anti-Europeanism, Bain Capital, Barack Obama, entrepreneur, Eurobashing, Europe, European Union, George W. Bush, Gerhard Schroeder, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Politics of the United States, Public image of Mitt Romney, Republican candidate, Republican Party (United States) presidential candidates, Republican presidential candidate, Republican presidential primary, South Carolina, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Timothy Garton Ash, United States presidential primaries, Washington D.C.
By: Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
WASHINGTON–Mitt Romney, one of the leading Republican U.S. Presidential candidates, has informed his countrymen over the past few weeks that U.S. President Barack Obama is working to turn the United States into Europe. This, one might think, is good news. Presumably it suggests that a unified “West” is closer to becoming a reality. The president, [...]
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Posted in Election 2012, European Union, Germany, Politics, slider, Transatlantic Take
Posted on 25 January 2012. Tags: African Union, Corporate Council for Africa, Democracy, European Union, Humanitarian aid, International Engagement Conference on South Sudan, South Sudan, United Nations, USAID
By: James Kunder
Fewer than 30 days into the new year, the foreign policy agenda for Europe and North America has already become crowded. North Korea, Iran, Syria, potential breakthroughs in Burma, and the still roiling revolutionary fervor in the Middle East are but a few of the issues facing transatlantic policymakers. Iraq, facing renewed violence in the [...]
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Posted in Africa, Economics, European Union, International Security, South Sudan, Trade & Poverty Reduction, United States
Posted on 24 January 2012. Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama, Brent Riddle, California, high speed rail, Obama administration, Spain, urban
By: Brent Riddle
WASHINGTON–A year ago, during his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama set a goal for a national high-speed rail (HSR) network: 85 percent of the country’s population would have access to HSR within 25 years. One year later, that goal seems wildly optimistic. Within a month of Obama’s speech, Florida Governor Rick [...]
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Posted in Comparative Domestic Policy, European Union, Politics, slider, Spain, Transatlantic Take, Transportation, United States
Posted on 20 January 2012. Tags: Democracy, Europe, European Union, Hungary, political opposition, United States, Viktor Orban
By: Pavol Demeš
BRATISLAVA—“Freedom House got it wrong!” We can expect to hear this message from an angry official in Budapest after the release on Thursday of the Freedom in the World Report 2012. Hungary has the unfortunate distinction of being the only Western democracy in which governance and civic liberties declined over the last year. Just earlier [...]
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Posted in Central and Eastern Europe, European Union, Hungary, slider, Transatlantic Take, United States
Posted on 09 January 2012.
By: Ian Lesser
BRUSSELS—Full details of the Obama administration’s new look in defense spending, force posture, and strategy are not yet out. But enough has been revealed to venture some thoughts on the logic of the new approach and the longer-term implications for the United States and transatlantic partners. The shift to a “one war, spoil and manage” [...]
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Posted on 09 January 2012.
By: Sarah Raine
BERLIN — When President Barack Obama unveiled a new national defense strategy last week, which confirmed the United States’ intent to play a sustained role in shaping a rising Asia, he noted that “the tide of war is receding.” This observation will have done little to reassure a skeptical Beijing that the strategy is aimed [...]
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Posted in Afghanistan, Asia, European Union, International Security, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, NATO, Transatlantic Relations, Transatlantic Take, United States
Posted on 09 January 2012.
By: Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer
PARIS—The Obama administration’s new defense strategy should come as no surprise to observers in France and across Europe. The question of rebalancing American military involvement between Europe and the Asia-Pacific has been a recurring theme of transatlantic relations and of U.S. policy debates since at least the 1950s. In large part, it reflects the historical [...]
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Posted in Asia, European Union, International Security, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, NATO, News, Politics, Transatlantic Relations, Transatlantic Take, United States