NATO summit in Lisbon
In Lisbon on Friday and Saturday (19 and 20 November) the NATO summit will be held. The main topics on the agenda will be the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the new plans of the Alliance for a new anti-missile shield; partnership with Russia. Another important event that euinside will follow in the framework of the forum will be the EU-US summit, the holding of which was under question for almost a year.
| © euinsideN. Mladenov: There is a Chinese wall between EU and NATO
Imagine the same people, the same ministers from plus/minus a couple of states to sit in two different formats and behave as if between the one format and the other there is a Chinese wall. With this figure of speech Minister for Foreign Affairs Nickolay Mladenov described the relations between ...
| © The Presidential Press and Information OfficeNATO and Russia announced a fresh start in their relations
Superlatives such as a "fresh start", a "tipping point", a "historic" or "great success" were the most frequently used phrases after the joint meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), which took place in the framework of the NATO summit in Lisbon. Even the usually reserved Russian President Dmi ...
| © NATONATO after Lisbon: the main points in the new Strategic Concept
More dialogue with the international civil partners; greater emphasis on the reconstruction of countries affected by conflicts; pooling resources for greater efficiency - these are the highlights in the new NATO Strategic Concept, approved by NATO leaders on the first day of their summit in Lisb ...
| © Audiovisual serviceEU and the US: good partners and friends but within the G20 context
The long-awaited summit between the European Union and the United States has ended with a joint statement and then only press statements of the three participants, without an opportunity for questions from the numerous journalists that were in the press room. Furthermore, this joint statement ou ...
| © courtesy: the White HouseObama reaffirmed Europe as an ally but priorities still differ
On the eve of the Nato summit, as well as the EU-US summit in Lisbon, the American president Barack Obama conveyed a message in a special article in the New York Times. This message, however, clearly shows that EU's and US's priorities differ on key issues. Although he starts his article namely ...
| © Audiovisual ServiceData protection will dominate the EU-US summit in Lisbon
The issues which the European Union wants to raise at the EU-US summit, which will take place on November 20 in Lisbon, are many. The summit will take place within the framework of the Nato summit. More interesting is that it is hard to outline the main priority from the debate in the European P ...
| © euinsideEP: EU's exit strategy on Afghanistan should contain 3 points
It is expected at the Nato summit the plan for a gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan to be announced. Nato forces are supposed to leave the country by 2014. In this context the priorities of the future EU's exit strategy for Afghanistan should be political, economic and social rehabilitation of ...
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