NATO update

 

28 October 2022 Update Secretary General aboard USS George H.W. Bush: NATO’s strength deters conflict NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Adriatic Sea on 25 October 2022. The Bush currently leads a carrier strike group under NATO command, which Mr Stoltenberg called “a demonstration of US capability and commitment to the Alliance”. READ MORE NATO Secretary General and Romanian Prime Minister address Black Sea security Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă to NATO Headquarters on 26 October 2022 to address Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine and the implications for security in the Black Sea region. READ MORE NATO and Romania join forces to train Ukrainian paramedics NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre and Romania signed a cooperation agreement on 24 October 2022 to deliver paramedic training for Ukrainian first responders. READ MORE NATO Deputy Secretary General addresses ethical use of new technology in defence On 25 October 2022, NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană emphasised how taking innovative, non-traditional approaches to problem solving is key to NATO’s approach to current and emerging security challenges. READ MORE NATO Public Diplomacy Division's Co-Sponsorship Grants Do you have an idea for a project that could contribute to better understanding of NATO, its role and policies? READ MORE NATO Military Committee highlights importance of readiness across land and maritime domains On 20-21 October 2022, the NATO Military Committee was in Türkiye to visit Allied Land Command, the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps Türkiye, the Multinational Joint Warfare Centre and the Maritime Security Centre of Excellence. READ MORE French and Norwegian soldiers swap meals-ready-to-eat rations Every army in NATO has its own field ration, commonly known as MREs (meals-ready-to-eat). While perhaps not the height of culinary expression, these rations give soldiers the calories they need to power through a hard day in the field. From Ally to Ally, their contents differ in small, interesting ways. WATCH VIDEO THIS WEEK IN PICTURES

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New books added to the Council Library's collection - October 2022

 

Library blog Friday 28 October 2022

● General Secretariat of the Council   New books added to the Council Library's collection - October 2022   Discover our selection of books recently added to the Council Library collection.

New books added to the Council Library's collection - October 2022

• 28 October 2022
 
• New books
 
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Discover our selection of books recently added to the Council Library collection. To get a fuller view, please consult the list in Eureka, the online catalogue of the Council libraries.

• New books October 2022

Highlights:

• The concept of solidarity: energy policy in the European Union

"Solidarity is a fuzzy concept although it is a core concept of the EU historically. Aline Bartenstein's book contributes to the clarification and analysis of the concept of solidarity between EU member states."

• Rapport Schuman sur l'Europe : l'état de l'Union 2022

"La guerre en Ukraine ajoute une crise à la suite impressionnante de difficultés auxquelles l’Union européenne a été confrontée ces dernières années. Après la crise financière, après la pandémie, la voici désormais face à un nouveau défi d’une ampleur inégalée depuis 1950 : le retour de la guerre sur le continent."

• State of the Union: Schuman report on Europe 2022

"The war in Ukraine has added another crisis to the impressive string of difficulties that the European Union has faced in recent years. After the financial crisis, then the pandemic, it now faces a new challenge of a magnitude not seen since 1950: the return of war to the continent."

• Constitutional change in the European Union: towards a federal Europe

"Europe’s future is contested between those who want to integrate further, those who prefer things to stay as they are, and those who would retreat into nationalism."

• Taiwan and the changing dynamics of Sino-US relations: a relationality approach

"Ever since China surpassed Japan to become the world’s second largest economy, it has appeared to shift its policy shift from “biding our time” and a self-described “peaceful rise” toward increased assertiveness in regional and international affairs."

• Geopolitics of the illicit: linking the Global South and Europe

"This anthology examines different dimensions of illicit commodity flows and asks how they can be understood through a geographical lens that looks from the Global South to Europe."

 

The publications mentioned in this post do not necessarily represent the positions, policies, or opinions of the Council of the European Union or the European Council.

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IMF update

 

Dear maria, We just published a new blog—please find the full text below.  Asia and the World Face Growing Risks From Economic Fragmentation (Photo: Asia Images Group; Md Jawadur Rahman/Pexels; Travel Coffee Book; samxmeg/Getty Images) By Diego Cerdeiro, Siddharth Kothari and Chris Redl Geopolitical tensions have raised the prospect that strategic competition and national security concerns may trump the shared economic benefits of global trade. Interdependencies between economies mean that such a prospect would be very costly, especially for Asia. For example, about half of the imports in the United States and a third in Europe come from Asia. And, in turn, Asian countries account for almost half of global demand for key commodities. In our latest Regional Economic Outlook for Asia and the Pacific, we document worrying early signs of fragmentation and provide evidence of the potential consequences of dissolving global trade links.