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On Defense, France Bites the Bullet, But Avoids Strategic Insolvency May 7, 2013
Iceland’s Recovery Saga Presents Opportunities for Brussels, Washington—and Beijing May 6, 2013
Which Way Forward for Europe’s Hybrid Regimes? May 2, 2013
The Arab Revolts and the Liberal Order May 2, 2013
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GMF celebrates its 40 year history and Founder and Chairman, Dr. Guido Goldman at Gala Dinner May 09, 2013 / Washington, DCGMF held a celebratory gala dinner at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday May 8.
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
Pride comes before a recession
March 24, 2011 / Bruce Stokes
European Voice
Add another casualty to the list of victims of the Great Recession: the U.S. conceit that its labor market is superior to that in Europe. “European labor markets have weathered the effects of the Great Recession noticeably better than that of the United States,” writes economist Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC, in a new paper for the German Marshall Fund of the United States. This assessment is shared by Michael Burda, of Humboldt University in Berlin, and Jennifer Hunt, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, in a separate new study for the Brookings Institution in Washington.
