On June 30th, the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a private one-day ELN Seminar on Reducing the Role of Nuclear Weapons in the NATO-Russia Relationship.
The seminar brought together a range of senior political, military and diplomatic figures from both NATO countries and Russia, as well as analysts from across the continent. More details on the event will appear on this site shortly.
The proposed Russian withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty highlights Europe’s limited influence on arms control arrangements that affect it profoundly, writes Julia Berghofer. Europe needs to find a stronger voice or its security will remain a by-product of US-Russia relations.
Jan Techau, director of Carnegie Europe, argues that despite its recent problems, the EU’s Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) will remain a central tool of EU foreign policy.
To avoid making post-war Ukraine’s public sentiments grow anti-Western or isolationist, Denys Karlovskyi writes that NATO must build a mutually beneficial framework of security cooperation with Ukraine’s government and maintain the current level of Ukrainian public support for NATO and the EU. One way of achieving this is for NATO member states to engage with the Ukrainian public in a way that is on par with the government.