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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
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Towards a Wider Europe: The New Agenda March 18, 2004 / Bratislava
In March 2004, a few weeks before the accession of several Central and Eastern European countries to the European Union and NATO, the German Marshall Fund partnered with the Slovak Foreign Policy Association and the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO) of Slovakia to hold an international conference in Bratislava, Slovakia. GMF’s conference of think tank and NGO officials dovetailed into a governmental conference that brought together ten prime ministers from new EU member countries, two presidents from the Southern Caucasus, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and EU Commissioner Guenter Verheugen, to address the evolving policy agenda of the Euro-Atlantic community toward its new neighbors. Both conferences came under the umbrella idea “Towards a Wider Europe: The New Agenda,” and GMF convened policy experts and analysts from more than 30 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Western states and institutions, to discuss the theme. The results of the think tank conference were then used in the governmental meeting the next day. This think tank and experts meeting, as well as its governmental counterpart, was among the first major international conferences to focus attention on the new larger Euro-Atlantic community. The dual enlargement of the European Union and NATO this year has shifted the foreign and security policy agenda of accession countries from accession itself to the new challenges of full integration. It has also shifted the EU and NATO agendas toward new geographical and problem areas just outside the region’s new borders. Considerable challenges to democracy and security loom in the immediate southern and eastern borders of the enlarged EU, in the Balkans, the Black Sea region, and the Caucasus. In identifying the most crucial of these challenges, the think tank and experts meeting aimed to contribute to setting an agenda for foreign and security policy for the countries in the region, as well as for the Euro-Atlantic community more broadly. Click here for a copy of the conference program (PDF — 10.5KB)
