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🇺🇦 As part of official pre-conference activities ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference this June, GMF is partnering with
@giz_gmbh
&
@BMZ_Bund
for discussion on rebuilding Ukraine's skilled workforce. Join us live for opening remarks & talk on Ukraine's demographic challenge.
❝The beginning of liberation of Russia from Putin's fascism won't start before 🇺🇦flags raised in Sevastopol, period. Anything else is wishful thinking. It's psychological. You have to kill the idea of the empire in the minds of Russians.❞
@Kasparov63
@vmsalama
#NATOPublicForum
❝The beginning of liberation of Russia from Putin's fascism will not start before Ukrainian flags raised in Sevastopol, period. Anything else is wishful thinking. It's psychological. You have to kill the idea of the empire in the minds of Russians.❞
@Kasparov63
@vmsalama
❝We all agree that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance...We all agree that NATO's door is open to new members and that it is for the NATO allies and Ukraine to decide when they should join, not Moscow,❞
@jensstoltenberg
,
@NATO
Secretary General tells
@helenecooper
.
❝To be free again, it's mandatory Ukraine wins... This war is a war about values... Ukrainians are trying to avoid casualties. Russians deliberately attack civilian population. War on values cannot end at the negotiating table.❞
#NATOPublicForum
@Kasparov63
@vmsalama
❝From 1999 to 2021 the European allies of NATO increased their defense investment by 23.9%. In the same period, the US by 65.7%, Russia by 192%, and China by 592%. The point is that the threat is real and we have to do more.❞
@kajakallas
#NATOSummit
"Knowing that the resulting features of high-quality infrastructure can stand not just as pillars of transportation, but cathedrals of democracy." -
@SecretaryPete
#MarshallPlan75
#GMFat50
"Ukraine must not lose. Russia must not win... Ukraine must win, and this means that Russia must lose on the Ukrainian battlefield," claims
@n_roettgen
at
#WSF2022
.
❝Ukraine victory includes three things liberation: reparation, justice, and territories. Justice is a very important because that's the way to send a very clear message that all war criminals will be brought to justice.❞
#NATOPublicForum
@Kasparov63
@vmsalama
"Fifty years after the creation of the German Marshall Fund; seventy-five years after the Marshall Plan is of course very timely." U.S. Transportation
@SecretaryPete
speaks on the significance of these anniversaries.
#MarshallPlan75
#GMFat50
We tend to overestimate these words about humiliation, hurting Putin's feelings, or if we just talk to him nicely, he'll do a deal. It's about interests, argues Michael
@McFaul
#BrusselsForum
@IQ2US
❝To be free again, it's mandatory Ukraine wins... This war is a war about values... Ukrainians are trying to avoid casualties. Russians deliberately attack civilian population. War on values cannot end at the negotiating table.❞
#NATOPublicForum
@Kasparov63
@vmsalama
GMF congratulates its president, Dr.
@KDonfried
, on her nomination to serve as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs to the Biden administration. Read our official statement:
.
@nathanlawkc
joins our
#BrusselsForum
discussion, "Women, Youth, and Exiles: The New Faces of the Global Struggle for Democracy," happening tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 2:30 p.m. CEST. Watch live at .
❝We need to restore not only Ukrainian infrastructure, we need to restore the belief of the Ukrainian people that rule of law is essential, democracy is working, and justice is possible,❞
@ccl_ua
's Nobel laureate
@avalaina
said in conversation with GMF and
@philea_eu
.
Sviatlana
@Tsihanouskaya
, leader of democratic Belarus, will speak at the 16th edition of
#BrusselsForum
on June 15 under the theme "Reimagining Democracy." Stay tuned here and register now:
Introducing "China Global," a new GMF podcast hosted by
@GMFAsia
Program Director
@BonnieGlaser
that will explore the different facets of
#China
's foreign policy and what they mean for the rest of the world.
Stay tuned here for the release of episode one!
A breakdown of how the
#Kremlin
employs information warfare across all aspects of their national power + a preview of author
@selectedwisdom
's upcoming book, "Messing With The Enemy:"
Sviatlana
@Tsihanouskaya
joins
#BrusselsForum
for a conversation on the global struggle for democracy happening today at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 2:30 p.m. CEST. Watch live at .
"Only by having a multilateral approach, only by having transatlantic cooperation, or even democratic countries around the world to work together, we can conquer the recession of global democracy." -
@nathanlawkc
#BrusselsForum
Join GMF for a conversation with Sviatlana
@Tsihanouskaya
, moderated by
@JonDKatz
, on how Belarusians are impacted, adapting, fighting, and working against Putin and Lukashenka’s war in Ukraine. Details below:
❝I know it's very difficult to speak about recovery in war times but it's too late to discuss this after the war.❞
@ccl_ua
's
@avalaina
says that recovery plans must go beyond infrastructure and also tackle survivor support, relocation assistance, local econ support, and more.
"Let me be very, very clear: We can never, ever again, ever again create a dependency on Russian fossil fuels. That can never happen again." -
@TimmermansEU
#BrusselsForum
"The military advantages of using a tactical nuclear weapon are negligible... if you remember Chernobyl in 1986, all adjacent Russian areas have a risk of being contaminated and these are the most important agricultural producing regions,"
@v_milov
tells
#WSF2022
.
"We tried to learn as much as possible from [Russia's war on Ukraine], so Taiwan can be better prepared if another authoritarian country, that is China, wants to launch a war against Taiwan," says
@MOFA_Taiwan
at
#BrusselsForum
.
"When the picture of huge demonstrations disappeared, we felt that attention was decreasing a little bit...it gave the regime a sense of impunity." -
@Tsihanouskaya
#BrusselsForum
I think in the long run Europe, and the world, and the climate, by the way, are "all going to be better off" from this isolationism, argues Michael
@McFaul
.
#BrusselsForum
@IQ2US
Joseph Wu,
@MOFA_Taiwan
: "There is no other country or no other democracy that is having such close economic ties with China, and at the same time, facing such a strong military threat from China."
#BrusselsForum
New emerging threats to the United States are not conventional military threats. Senator
@ChrisMurphyCT
discusses the need for a broader conversation about how we resource our defenses amid
#Coronavirus
with GMF's
@Julie_C_Smith
:
"Now there is a consensus achieved in our country, that Nord Stream 2 will never become operational. So it's the destruction of an infrastructure that has never been in use or is in use no longer," says
@n_roettgen
at
#WSF2022
.
Contrary to disinformation, Ukraine is not a hopelessly corrupt country. It is winning a two-front war against Russia and against corruption.
@JoshRudes
@NormEisen
& Cameron Bertron lay out how stakeholders can support Ukraine's anti-corruption efforts:
"Putin operates in its own framework of rationality," asserts
@juliaioffe
at
#BrusselsForum
. During a conversation about the rationality of Russia's behavior, our panelists elaborated on the reasoning behind Putin's tactical objectives.
GMF is pleased to announce that Gunnar Wiegand has joined as a visiting distinguished fellow in the Indo-Pacific program!
Welcome to GMF,
@WiegandEU
!
@GMFAsia
"Russia is not going anywhere; it's going to be a European state, but Russia will need at least a decade, if not more, to sort itself out. In that time, it will be a threat to our security and we need to brace for that."
@TimmermansEU
#BrusselsForum
“I think the Chinese would be ill-advised to assume that if the U.S. did not intervene militarily in a Ukraine crisis, that means the U.S. would not intervene militarily in a Taiwan crisis,”
@BonnieGlaser
told
@nytimes
. “They really are different.”
We are pleased to announce that
@jensstoltenberg
, Secretary General of
@NATO
, will join the
#BrusselsForum
virtual stage on June 23 at 14:30 CET / 8:30 a.m. EDT. The discussion will be moderated by
@markuspreiss
. Watch live at .
"There was a way to reach people that again did not ever involve watering down my values or policies, but really was just about making sure we found the humanity in one another." -
@PeteButtigieg
#BrusselsForum
Listen to the full discussion here:
Joseph Wu,
@MOFA_Taiwan
: We must deal with the confrontation the between the U.S. and China and the changing dynamics in the transatlantic relationship.
#BrusselsForum
#Live
from the Aspen-GMF Bucharest Forum 2022 with NATO Secretary-General
@jensstoltenberg
: "NATO continues to stand with
#Ukraine
for as long as it takes. We will not back down"
Sensing the tide turning against
#Turkey
, Athens is making a major diplomatic comeback. “All this has buoyed
#Athens
& given a message that the EU & U.S. nowadays see Greece as very much a full member of the club,” GMF's
@ian_lesser
told
@ForeignPolicy
:
In light of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to key European capitals,
@GMFAsia
's
@GarimaMo
told
@ThePrintIndia
: “European leaders and policymakers are convinced by India’s position and understand the stand it has taken." (1/5)
On May 26 at 8:30 a.m. EDT, join
@GMFAsia
for a discussion on
#Taiwan
's future in international organizations. Ahead of the event, tweet us your questions using
#GMFTaiwanForward
.
Learn more:
Register now:
"We've seen the emergence of a new axis of evil between Russia and China and Iran and North Korea" former VP
@Mike_Pence
touches on the interconnectivity of international security at
#BrusselsForum
.
❝The business of NATO is to keep 1 billion citizens safe. Security is the foundation of prosperity. Security is the foundation of democracy. Security is the foundation of normal life for our citizens❞
#NATOSummit
@Mircea_Geoana
@MunSecConf
@FrankeBenedikt
.
@EvelynNFarkas
reacts to Trump's latest move to fund the wall: “It raises the question of whether the president is sufficiently committed to deterrence of Russia and security of U.S. personnel and U.S. interests in Europe as opposed to on our border.”
"Our goal is de-escalation and diplomacy. Simultaneously, the allies are focused on making sure that Russia understands that should they choose another path, the Alliance is prepared for all contingencies." -
@USAmbNATO
#RussiaCrisis
.
@RepCohen
,
@HopkoHanna
,
@martin_klus
,
@OdileRenaud
, and
@RaviReports
discussed what a Marshall Plan for Ukraine should look like.
"A Marshall Plan [for Ukraine] is an instrument to make Ukraine a successful story for everyone, a successful story for democracy," Hanna said.
GMF proudly congratulates
@KDonfried
on her appointment as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. Today we celebrate her many achievements as GMF president and reflect on her leadership, strategic vision, and commitment to the transatlantic relationship.
The geopolitical turmoil of 2022 presents a multitude of challenges for the transatlantic community. Divided into four chapters, Transatlantic Trends provides a detailed picture of public opinion on core and contemporary issues.
Explore now!
.
@PeteButtigieg
: There is a challenging balance for people of good intentions in the US recognizing that Black voices are and ought to be leading this protest and this movement in so many ways, & yet recognizing that they can't be asked to carry this burden alone.
#BrusselsForum
"I welcome the fact that Russia and the United States are now sitting down, starting to negotiate how to reach an agreement on arms control for nuclear weapons. That is of great importance for all of us." -
@NATO
Secretary General
@jensstoltenberg
#BrusselsForum
.
@jan_techau
shares his thoughts on
#German
burden sharing within
#NATO
with
@kbennhold
: “First we said 2 percent, but we didn’t really mean it. Then we said 1.5 percent, and it turns out we didn’t really mean that either.” (via
@nytimes
):
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Our 2023
#TransatlanticTrends
report assesses public opinion on issues impacting the world order, transatlantic relations, security & defense, China, and global challenges.
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GMF President
@KDonfried
has been presented by Ambassador Wouters with the “Commander in the Order of the Crown” distinction for services rendered to Belgium, awarded by The King of the Belgians. What an honor!
"There has been a shift in my home country, Germany, towards China. It's much more critical than a few years ago,"
@davidmcallister
tells the
#BrusselsForum
audience.
We're excited to welcome you back to Day 4 of
#BrusselsForum
. Up first, "Women, Youth, and Exiles: The New Faces of the Global Struggle for Democracy" with Sviatlana
@Tsihanouskaya
,
@nathanlawkc
, &
@ConStelz
.
Watch live at 8:30 a.m. EDT / 2:30 p.m. CEST:
There is a paradox that despite the historic success of
@NATO
, there are questions being asked about the strength of our partnership both in Europe and North America, shares
@jensstoltenberg
.
#NATOEngages
Now published in German, “Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World" by
@CliveCHamilton
and
@MareikeOhlberg
, explains how Beijing is exploiting the economic weakness of the West while also attacking democracy:
What does victory in Ukraine look like?
@OMarkarova
explains:
🌐Restore territorial integrity
🧑���🤝🧑Return all people to Ukraine
🏗️Start rebuilding
⚖️Full and comprehensive justice
.
@SecPompeo
, U.S. Secretary of State, joins
#BrusselsForum
for a one-on-one conversation with
@bopanc
of the
@WSJ
. Watch live on June 25 at 17:00 CET / 11:00 a.m. EDT at .
❝I keep referring to this war as WWI with 21st century technology because we have this parallel of trenches and dragon teeth, but at the same time we do see a lot of drones in the sky.❞
@RikeFranke
@terischultz
#NATOPublicForum
"We need to be aware of the historical significance and the weight that [Putin] personally attaches to a personal endeavor. That means that he is not going to give up easily." -
@carlbildt
#BrusselsForum
#NATOSummit