Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
New types of missiles, an adversarial NATO-Russia relationship, and the ever-present threat of inadvertent escalation make it necessary to start thinking anew how verifiable arms control with Russia may look like in the future.
Efforts to regulate artificial intelligence must aim to balance protecting the health, safety, and fundamental rights of individuals while reaping the benefits of innovation.
New Western commitments to deliver combat vehicles to Ukraine are putting Berlin on the spot. To prevent Russia from further destabilizing Europe, Germany must forge a special Europapolitik.
The problems in bilateral relations are unlikely to disappear any time soon. Ukraine won’t want to become another buffer zone separating Russia and the West, but that is the scenario Germany will give serious consideration, fearing another war or Moscow’s nuclear threats.
Fear is not an ignoble sentiment.
It is easier to track progress in climate policy than it is in most other fields, and plain to see that the European approach has been more successful than the American. According to Climate Action Tracker, EU greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 28 percent between 1990 and 2021.
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU is seeking to fulfill its defense potential. But promising new defense policy proposals may lose momentum without more funds and attention.
As unprecedented as the EU AI Act is, it remains fundamentally a piece of EU legislation. Much of it is borrowed from common EU frameworks, to the extent that it cannot be properly understood without this broader context.
“Harmonised standards” play an important role in EU legislation by making what are at times vague essential requirements into concrete technical requirements.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed important differences in European visions of future security. If left to fester, these will deepen resentment between Europe’s East and West.*