Center for Strategic

A new course for NATO and European defense?

Max Bergmann, the director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), joins Thanos Davelis to look at why this year's 75th anniversary of NATO is an opportunity for the US to lead the way in plotting a new course for NATO and European defense. 

Far right makes gains in European elections

Sunday's European elections saw not only a strengthened far right emerge, but also saw French President Macron call for snap parliamentary elections in response to the victory for the far-right National Rally led by Marine Le Pen.

Center-right and far-right parties are now set to take the largest number of seats in the most populous nations.

Is European defense becoming a necessity?

As Western leaders gathered in Munich this weekend for the Munich Security Conference, warnings about Russian President Putin's possible next moves were mixed with Europe's growing concerns that it could soon be abandoned by the United States as aid to Ukraine is stalled in Congress and former President Trump casts doubts on America's commitment to NATO.

In the US, Mitsotakis vows to fight graft, meets investors

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has accused Greece's leftist-led government of being under the tutelage of "a new generation of oligarchs," while vowing to reform the debt-wracked country's business environment by combating graft and safeguarding the rule of law if he becomes prime minister.

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