European Defense
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- Category: Roundtables
- Created on 15 December 2011
On December 15th, in cooperation with NATO, The European Institute held a luncheon meeting to discuss U.S.- EU-NATO relations. Panelists included: Antonella Cerasino, Head of the Countries Section, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO; Ambassador Robert Hunter, Director of the Center for Transatlantic Security Studies in the Institute for National Strategic Studies as the National Defense University; Ambassador Kurt Volker, Managing Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies; Brigadier General Bruno Caitucoli, Defense Attaché at the Embassy of France; and Rory Domm, Political Counselor at the Delegation of the European Union. The discussion was moderated by Leo Michel, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University. This is part of a series of events the Institute will hold in the walkup to the NATO Summit in Chicago in May 2012.
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- Category: EA December 2011
- Created on 14 December 2011
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- Category: EA September 2011
- Created on 30 September 2011
The “liberation of Libya” seems to have brought benefits for most of the participants – the 
Libyan people as a whole, NATO, President Barack Obama, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and, very particularly, French President Nicholas Sarkozy.
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- Category: EA August 2011
- Created on 27 September 2011
The likely long-term importance of Libya for transatlantic military cooperation has been 
encapsulated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy: “For the first time since 1949, NATO was placed at the service of a coalition led by two determined European nations.”
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- Category: Roundtables
- Created on 19 September 2011
On September 19, 2011, Claude-France Arnould, the European Defense Agency’s new Chief Executive, addressed the multiple challenges in bolstering the European Union’s defense capabilities and furthering EU-US defense cooperation at a time of severe budgetary restriction. She focused particularly on the European Union’s Pooling and Sharing Initiative and the need for increased transatlantic cooperation in order to effectively meet common security challenges and improve defense capabilities.
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