The German Marshall Fund of the United States’ (GMF) Young Transatlantic Network (YTN) represents a generation that has grown up in a world where Germany is united, the Iron Curtain has fallen, the Soviet and Yugoslav and Czechoslovak unions are a part of history, and the European Union and NATO have expanded to include most of the European continent. Instead, the global changes facing these early-career policy makers include the “Arab Spring,” the Ukrainian revolution, a confrontation between Russia and the West, and the various trials and tribulations of the EU that will all continue to play out in real …read more