by Tamás Lattmann | Mar 12, 2024 | Analysis
Sweden – and Finland – had started to express interest in joining the NATO in 2022, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and while the vast majority of NATO members welcomed the intention, Turkey and Hungary were reluctant to formally approve their accession for a...
by Selcen Pınar Akgül | Oct 7, 2022 | Analysis
With the Ukraine crisis still ongoing, the EU finalized its Strategic Compass, its first ever defense strategy, with a much-increased sense of urgency and purpose. The Compass has not only emphasizes the alignment between efforts of Member States and NATO’s...
by Melanie Banerjee | Jul 15, 2022 | Analysis
In a historic shift of events, Sweden and Finland bid to apply as members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an organisation established as a system of collective security for its members formed in the aftermath of World War II in 1949. However,...
by C4EP | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog, Book Review
Easy Victor: the Kremlin and the Rule of Law in the West Source: kremlin.ru “[Russian] money laundering and mafia activity went on in Angela Merkel’s constituency for years, in the hope that Russian-owned dockyards would bring local...
by C4EP | Feb 22, 2019 | Blog
Looking Beyond Trump Europe can still save the transatlantic alliance Source: U.S. Mission to the European Union “He has done damage that the Soviets would have dreamt of.” Asked for comments on President Donald Trump’s impact on the transatlantic...