GMF at NATO's Ankara Summit
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July 6, 2026
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[Erdogan] will want to capitalize on this during the summit and convert it into domestic popularity...The dilemma at the E.U. is seeing Turkey as a partner, a competitor and at times a rival.
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Turkey has built a unique ecosystem in which its production times are faster than European averages and its finishing of projects more reliable.
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I think there's a broad consensus in the alliance that in the future NATO is going to be a more European NATO, though certainly not a NATO without the United States. I think that's extremely unlikely, and obviously very undesirable.
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But Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, president of the German Marshall Fund, says the region should see the moment as an opportunity rather than a 'window of vulnerability' that consists of 'Europeans not knowing what to do [and] panicking'.
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It’s very clear that the U.S. role is changing, the main hope is to do damage control and to get predictability.
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There is a tension within the EU, obviously it’s not fully consistent with the ‘Made in NATO’ approach, but there’s a happy middle. Many European countries are part of NATO, so by definition, if they’re going to create these platforms, it’s going to happen in the EU.
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The big issue I think that Europeans should be focusing on is the industrial cadence and capacity to actually deliver in a much quicker way to meet the moment.
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It really is a tale of two summits...You have all the preexisting concerns about the Trump agenda, some on display yesterday, as he ticked off all his grievances.
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