Europe’s Very Special Relationship Problem
Concessions to Russia, pressure on Ukraine, rumours of US-Russian deals to open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, tariffs, threats to “take” Greenland, election support for far right parties, equivocations over NATO: Europe learned very quickly that Donald Trump’s second administration will be an extraordinary challenge…
Lennart Meri Lecture: Shall We Go Forward Together? Of Deals and Red Lines
Lennart Meri Lecture given by Constanze Stelzenmüller, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, on 17 May 2025 at the Lennart Meri Conference 2025 in Tallinn.
America Is Back, but… Europe and Especially Germany Need To Do Much More for European Security
It took President Joe Biden nearly five months before he made his first trip abroad in June, to Europe; he had more important things to do. Arguably, that is still the case today.