Section: Atlantic Council (USA)
Ukraine’s New Foreign-Born Ministers Vow to Accelerate Economic Reforms
US- and Lithuanian-Born Officials Will Be Independent, Competent—and New to Governing in Kyiv The race is on. With Ukraine’s finances running thin and the country needing a bigger bailout from its western allies, the country’s new cabinet took office this week pledging to floor the accelerator on the spending cuts and reforms needed...
The Cheapening of Oil and What It Means for US Policies
Atlantic Council’s Manning: US May Benefit, But Must Review Its Strategy, in a New World of ‘Peak Demand’ World oil prices have slipped again after the global cartel, OPEC, declined November 27 to cut the amount of crude petroleum its members pump from the earth. Instead, OPEC followed pressure from Saudi Arabia to keep its production...
Ukraine News Roundup | November 26
Moldova Votes on Sunday: Will Russia Win That Election? Via BloombergObama Should Say It Clearly: Russia Has Invaded Ukraine via Philadelphia InquirerMerkel Secretly Goes One-On-One with Putin, Hits a Dead-End via ReutersAmid Ukraine’s Crisis, Its High-Tech Industry Is Booming via ForbesPutin Youth: The Young Russians Who See the President...
On Ukraine, the Economists Declare an Emergency
Ukraine’s Allies Plan a Donor Conference in February; Is That Soon Enough? On Ukraine, the economists are declaring an emergency. Ukraine is bleeding cash in its war against Russian and Russian-proxy forces in the Donbas region. With its industrial heartland shattered by the war, the country’s economy is shriveling. And the warnings...
iden, Davutoğlu: Energy Key to Resolving Security Challenges
Vice President Joe Biden and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu spoke at a special closing session of the 2014 Atlantic Council Energy and Economic Summit on the topic of European energy security. In the shadow of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Ukraine, Biden spoke of the need for Europe to diversify its...
Ukraine News Roundup | November 21
Ukraine Parties Form New Government, Set NATO as Priority via RFE-RLOn Maidan’s Anniversary, Ukrainians’ Despair Jars Poroshenko, Biden via Washington Post‘Donetsk Republic’ Official: Yes, of Course, Russia Is Funding Us via Reuters For a Half-Million Ukrainian Refugees, a Hard Winter Is Coming via The InterpreterFor Crimeans,...
Before Ukraine Can Be Reformed, It Must Be Defended
When Hitler Invaded Poland, No One Demanded Polish Reforms Before Offering Help. Why Is It the Reverse for Ukraine? “September 3, 1939 – British and French commentators and officials said today that it could no longer be denied that Hitler was invading Poland and that the Nazi forces represented the most serious threat to the existence of that...
Sixth Atlantic Council Energy & Economic Wraps up Day 1 in Istanbul
Opinion leaders from politics, media, academia, and the corporate world convened in Istanbul this morning for two days of talks on how governments and companies manage emerging risks and uncertainty in today’s turbulent times.The sixth annual Energy & Economic Summit began with a welcome by Atlantic Council Chairman Jon M. Huntsman,...
Ukraine News Roundup | November 18
Dealing with Putin: How to Keep US-Russian Tensions from Going Critical via National InterestRussian ‘Deniable Intervention’ in Ukraine: Why and How Russia Broke the Rules via Chatham House Obama Calls Out Russia: ‘You Don’t Invade Other Countries’ via New York TimesPoroshenko Says Ukraine Prepared for ‘Total War’ as...
Ukraine’s New Government: The Names Emerge
We can expect Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to meet this week to vote on the country’s new government. The political parties of President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and their allies are close to completing negotiations and announcing their choices for the new Cabinet of Ministers. Critically, a...
