On June 22, GMF hosted the launch event for the Global Trade Alert (GTA), which draws upon the expertise of independent research institutes in seven regions worldwide. The GTA provides extensive information on state measures that are likely to affect the flow of international commerce.
On June 18, the German Marshall Fund (GMF) hosted a public discussion entitled, “Is Europe doing enough? Economics and policies in the wake of the global financial crisis.” The discussion featured Marek Belka, director of the European department of the International Monetary Fund and former prime minister of Poland. Sean Mulvaney, director of the Economic Policy Program at GMF, gave a brief introduction and moderated the event.
European leaders of the Marshall Memorial Fellowship have been meeting with U.S. officials, businesses, and media across the U.S. building personal connections and exploring issues on the transatlantic agenda.
The Centre for Economic Policy Research, in cooperation with GMF, launched the Global Trade Alert (GTA) (Download Video) project in London on June 8th, 2009. In addition to providing information on state measures in real time on its easy-to-use www.globaltradealert.org), GTA will allow policymakers, government officials, exporters, the media, and analysts to search the posted government measures by implementing country, trading partners harmed, and sector. In this regard, Global Trade Alert will complement and go beyond the WTO and World Bank's monitoring initiatives by identifying those trading partners likely to be harmed by state measures.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is pleased to announce Washington Post reporter Tara Bahrampour and Nicholas Kulish of The New York Times as the 2009 recipients of the Peter R. Weitz Prize for excellence and originality in U.S. reporting on Europe and the transatlantic relationship.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) launches a new transatlantic grantmaking initiative that investigates the impact of climate change on migration patterns. The initiative will convene leading experts on climate-induced migration to develop a final report on policy solutions for stakeholders and policymakers.
GMF releases new analysis pieces for its On Turkey series about Turkey's current foreign policy strategy under new leadership and its relations with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Azerbaijan. GMF provides regular analysis briefs by leading Turkish, European, and American writers and intellectuals, with a focus on dispatches from on-the-ground Turkish observers.
GMF is now on Twitter! Feel free to subscribe at http://twitter.com/gmfus or @gmfus. GMF will post updates of podcast, publications, and other content to Twitter in addition to here on http://www.gmfus.org.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States announces the formation of the Commission on the Black Sea (www.blackseacom.eu). This Commission is an initiative which aims to contribute to a joint vision and common strategy for the Black Sea region by developing new knowledge on areas of key concern. The Bertelsmann Stiftung of Germany, The International Policy Research Institute of the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV|IPRI), and the International Centre for Black Sea Studies of Greece (ICBSS) join GMF as partners.
The Transatlantic Academy is seeking candidates to serve as resident Fellows for ten months beginning in September 2010. The academy brings together scholars from Europe and North America to work on a single set of issues facing the transatlantic community. The academy is an interdisciplinary institution which is open to all social science disciplines.
For more information on the Academy please visit our website at www.transatlanticacademy.org. The academy welcomes applications from scholars working on the theme of Global Shift: the Transatlantic Community and the New Geopolitics.
This brief describes the countries of Central Europe must now lead the memorialization of the crimes of the communist era, remedy the European Union's democratic deficit, and reduce Eurovision and contemteporary Hollywood to forgotten footnotes in western creative history.
As Victor Hugo said, nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come. Perhaps this is why the new survey on "Radicalism and Extremism" in Turkey, has stimulated a heated debate even though its findings are neither new nor surprising.
Next month Obama will visit Moscow, seeking to further his administration's goal of resetting and improving relations with Russia. Improved ties with Russia are clearly in U.S. interests, as is Russian cooperation in dealing with a range of strategic issues. The key question is whether U.S.-Russian relations can improve in a serious, sustainable way?
