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Setting the New U.S. Climate and Clean Energy Agenda May 14, 2013
On Defense, France Bites the Bullet, But Avoids Strategic Insolvency May 7, 2013
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Andrew Light Speaker Tour in Europe May 14, 2013 / Berlin, Germany; Brussels, BelgiumGMF Senior Fellow Andrew Light participated in a speaking tour in Europe to discuss opportunities for transatlantic cooperation on climate and energy policy in the second Obama administration.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
Publications Archive
Charting a Euroatlantic Vision: The United States and Serbia on the 60th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan December 12, 2007 / Michael Polt
On June 26, 2007, then-U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Michael C. Polt delivered a speech at the Guarnerius Cultural Center in Belgrade on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. Drawing on George C. Marshall's vision of a recovered, united, and free Europe, Ambassador Polt urged the Serbian people and their leadership to join the United States and Europe in a common effort to fulfill the Marshall ideal for Serbia as well.
The speech followed the conclusion of the so-called Ahtisaari Plan for the future of Kosovo status and preceded the recently concluded efforts of the U.S./EU/Russia Troika to still seek a compromise between Belgrade and Pristina. The lack of success of either President Ahtisaari or the Troika to persuade the parties makes Ambassador Polt's June address as hard-hitting and equally relevant today as it was then. Given Ambassador Polt's current role as Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), GMF is redistributing his speech as a contribution by the "trustees" of the Marshall legacy to the discussion of a future of freedom and European integration of the Balkans.
