On a visit to London last December, Ukraine’s new economy minister, Aivaras Abromavicius, joined a growing chorus of pro-reform commentators when he asked if Ukraine should frame its urgent request for aid as a modern-day Marshall Plan. The question is now posed to Karen Donfried, the first female president of the German Marshall Fund (GMF) — the permanent memorial to the postwar US initiative to aid Europe — as she begins a tour of her early 1900s brick townhouse in Washington DC.
Donfried, 51, took on the new role last April after a stint in charge of European affairs at the …read more
Former White House adviser Karen Donfried on US ties with Europe
