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| Broadbent, Turner discuss urbanization in Canada and the United States |
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On July 17, GMF hosted a luncheon in the Cannon House Building on Capitol Hill with Alan Broadbent, the chairman of the Maytree Foundation, and Congressman Michael Turner (R-OH). Mr. Broadbent opened the event by discussing his recent book, Urban Nation. In addition to highlighting the book’s main points, he offered ways in which its prescriptions for empowering Canadian cities can be applied to an American context.
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| Inaugural Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration concludes in Nuremberg |
 On July 9-13, the first annual Transatlantic Forum on Migration and Integration (TFMI) was held at Castle Pommersfelden near Nuremberg, Germany. Organized by GMF with support from the Robert Bosch Stiftung, sixty emerging young leaders with diverse backgrounds from business, government, media, academia, and the nonprofit sectors on both sides of the Atlantic convened to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by ongoing migration flows. By exploring multiple perspectives on these issues, participants will share ideas for best practices and form lasting professional relationships across political and national boundaries.
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| Senior TAF Ian Lesser testifies before Congress on Europe-Israel relations |
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Senior Transatlantic Fellow Ian Lesser testified today before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Europe and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. His testimony is posted in the attached document.
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| Francois Lafond Named Director of GMF's Paris Office |
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Francois Lafond, a think tank veteran and former government adviser, has been named the Paris office director of The German Marshall Fund of the United States and will begin on July 15. Most recently, Lafond was a special adviser of the Italian Minister for Regional Affairs and Local Autonomies, responsible for international relations of the think tank Glocus in Rome, and associate professor at the Centre for European Studies of Sciences-Po Paris.
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| Russia, Afghanistan panels from Bucharest Conference featured in three-part radio series |
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From April 1-3, GMF held the Bucharest Conference, a three day gathering with panel discussions featuring leaders surrounding the role of NATO in the international community. The conference was held alongside the official 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest and provided a forum for leading policymakers, opinion leaders, scholars, and business people from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss the most pressing issues facing NATO and the international community. From June 7-21, NPR Berlin broadcasted two panels from the conference in a three-part series.
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| GMF announces Peter R. Weitz Prize winners for excellence in reporting on Europe |
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GMF is pleased to announce Wall Street Journal reporter Andrew Higgins and freelance journalist Mary Wiltenburg as the 2008 recipients of the Peter R. Weitz Prize for excellence and originality in U.S. reporting on Europe and the transatlantic relationship.
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| Dailey: Information sharing is the essence of counterterrorism activities |
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On May 30, GMF hosted a luncheon discussion entitled, “U.S. and European approaches in the fight against terrorism.” The event featured Dell L. Dailey, coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State, and Jeremy Shapiro of The Brookings Institute’s Center on the United States and Europe, GMF Senior Transatlantic fellow Ambassador Michael Polt moderated the discussion, which was held under the Chatham House rule.
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| New Climate & Energy Program to facilitate U.S.-EU dialogues on climate policy |
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GMF announces today the creation of a new Climate & Energy Program to facilitate transatlantic cooperation on climate policy solutions. The program is led by Cathleen Kelly, the former climate change policy director at the Nature Conservancy and a 14-year veteran on climate policy issues affecting the United States and Europe.
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| New GMF website to track U.S. presidential elections, transatlantic issues |
 Recently, GMF announced the launch of a website devoted to helping Europeans and the transatlantic community understand the 2008 U.S. presidential elections.
"Presidential Election 2008: What Europe Needs to Know" provides a range of ways to stay informed on candidates' transatlantic policy issues and political maneuvers.
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Director, Economic Policy Program
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The German Marshall Fund of the United States is actively seeking a new Director for its Economic Policy Program. This position offers an excellent opportunity to work in a non-partisan American public policy institution that promotes greater cooperation and understanding between the United States and Europe with a strong emphasis on economic policy.
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Economic Policy Program Officer, Trade
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The Economic Policy Program in the Washington, DC Headquarters is seeking a Program Officer for Trade. GMF’s Economic Policy Program promotes cooperation between the United States and Europe on domestic and international trade and development aid policies. This position will work in a challenging and entrepreneurial environment that requires individual initiative and close cooperation with the Economics staff in Brussels, our European Offices, and other GMF Programs.
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Economic Policy Program Officer, Biofuels
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The Economic Policy Program in the Washington, DC Headquarters is seeking a Program Officer for Biofuels. GMF’s Economic Policy Program promotes cooperation between the United States and Europe on domestic and international trade and development aid policies. This position will work in a challenging and entrepreneurial environment that requires individual initiative and close cooperation with the Economics staff in Brussels, our European Offices, and other GMF Programs.
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| Climate & Energy Program Officer (Washington, DC) |
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The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), a nonpartisan American public policy and grantmaking institution headquartered in Washington, DC, seeks a Program Officer for its new Climate & Energy Program. This new program aims to launch a new era of transatlantic cooperation to strengthen U.S. and European climate and energy policies and to create a new and far-reaching international climate agreement.
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| Progam Officer, Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia (Bucharest) |
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The Bucharest office of The German Marshall Fund of the United States seeks a Program Officer to manage its grant portfolio related to the South Caucasus. This position is based in Bucharest. GMF Bucharest office acts as a headquarters for the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (BST), a funding program that strengthen cross-border ties, civic participation, democratic governance, and the rule of law in the wider Black Sea region.
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If Not Now, Then When?
GMF Opinion Brief
Joe Guinan and Courtney Phillips-Youman
As ministers gather around the WTO negotiating table the week of July 21 in Geneva, there are troubling questions about whether the deal that is at hand is really worth doing and whether it is even possible to conclude an agreement at present, given the political constraints-especially those associated with a U.S. presidential election year. |
Democracy and a Piece of Clothing
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
PostGlobal, Washington Post
France has rejected a citizenship application from a burqa-wearing Moroccan woman on the grounds that she has "insufficiently assimilated" to French culture. Should cultural assimilation be a requirement for citizenship? |
A War The West Must Stop
Ronald D. Asmus
The Washington Post
There is war in the air between Georgia and Russia. Such a war could destabilize a region critical for Western energy supplies and ruin relations between Russia and the West. A conflict over Georgia could become an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. How they respond could become a test of the potential commander-in-chief qualities of Barack Obama and John McCain.
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Walking a Tightrope: World Trade in Manufacturing and the Benefits of Binding
GMF Policy Brief
Written by Patrick Messerlin
Negotiators in Geneva are still struggling to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Doubts have been fueled by the modesty of recent estimates of the gains on the table in the negotiations on Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA).
This policy brief argues that a completed Doha Round has more to offer to the U.S. and European private sector than cuts to already low applied industrial tariffs. The real gold mine in the Doha negotiations is the increased certainty that would flow from large cuts to bound tariff rates.
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U.S. needs alliance with Europe
Jack Martin
The Wichita Eagle
As President Bush made his farewell tour of Europe, one could almost be forgiven for thinking the continent had become an afterthought for the United States. Yet such a view would ignore the fact that a strong trans-Atlantic alliance is needed now more than ever, as America shares many more values, challenges and goals with the democracies of Europe than with any other nations.
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Narrowing the Transatlantic Climate Divide: A Roadmap to Progress
GMF Policy Paper and Brief
Written by Nigel Purvis
Most climate change opinion leaders on both sides of the Atlantic have modest expectations for the July Summit in Hokkaido, Japan—the location of both the G-8 leaders’ meeting and the Major Economies Meeting (MEM), an initiative launched by President Bush last year that involves the world’s 16 major economic powers and emitters, plus the EU. Transatlantic allies seem to be an ocean apart over how quickly Europe, the United States, and other major economies should reduce emissions over the next decade, but downplaying Hokkaido could be a serious mistake. |
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