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EU Countries Failing to Meet Military Spending Targets
December 16, 2019
According to a new report from the European Defence Agency, EU countries are failing to meet their own targets for coordinated military spending on everything from procurement to research.
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Muzergues: Four Social Classes Redefining Europe’s Political Fault Lines
December 12, 2019
In an Emerging Europe article, Thibault Muzergues, author of The Great Class Shift, describes the four “dominant” social classes that are now redefining Europe's political fault lines: Urban and Liberal Creatives, Suburban Middle Class, White Working Class and the Millennials, each of which can be identified with specific political movements.
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Berman: NATO Needs to Address Shortcomings
December 12, 2019
In an op-ed in The Hill, Ilan Berman, Senior Vice-President of the American Foreign Policy Council, opines that NATO "is suffering from deep systemic dysfunctions," which may be exacerbated by the fact that the communique produced by the recent NATO London summit "spent precious little time discussing the real systemic problems now facing the world’s most important military bloc."
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COE Secretary General Links "Populism and Radicalisation" as a Global Challenge to be Addressed by North-South Centre Membership
December 12, 2019
In a recent speech, Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić called on states from Europe and its neighboring regions to join the Council of Europe’s Centre for Global Interdependence and Solidarity (the "North-South Centre") to better tackle global challenges such as populism and radicalization, climate change, conflict and instability and resulting migrant flows.
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European Auditors Call for Strengthening of Legal Requirements for National Budgetary Frameworks
December 10, 2019
A recent report of the European Court of Auditors concludes that the European Union needs to strengthen and better monitor its legal requirements for national budgetary frameworks, highlighting the inconsistency between the European Commission's and independent bodies' assessment of member states' compliance with EU fiscal rules.
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