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November 2, 2009 | Europe is Wasting its "Obama Moment"

Jeremy Shapiro & Nick Witney: Europe needs to start acting as a unified collective if it is to become a credible and strategic partner for the US. If Europe does not step up, the US will look for other partners.

January 14, 2008 | Free Markets For Real Energy Security

On both sides of the Atlantic, foreign policy analysts have convinced politicians that the West faces a severe energy security challenge, stating that energy policy has become high politics, turning energy security into hard security. But, as Pierre Noël of Cambridge University argues, dreams about energy independence lead to expensive policies with no real energy security benefits. He argues

December 18, 2007 | Sarkozy's Proposal: Elitist or Forward Thinking?

Jose Ignacio Torreblanca of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) criticizes Sarkozy’s proposal of a committee of the wise, to address the future of Europe, but discusses how it might eventually come to be seen as an interesting forum for mobilizing public debate about the future challenges of the EU.

The proposal has been received with skepticism because of fears that it