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While the previous NATO head, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was more cautious in assessing the timeline for Ukraine's accession into the alliance, his predecessor was... 23.01.2022, Sputnik International
NATO allies are scouring their ranks — in search of a successor to Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg, a former prime minister of Norway, has served in the top civilian post since October 2014. Allies extended his contract until September 2022, leaving little more than a year to install a replacement. At headquarters, formal discussions have just begun, and Stoltenberg’s successor is expected to be introduced at a NATO leaders’ summit in Madrid in late spring or early summer next year. But speculation in Brussels and other allied capitals is already rampant, with some o...
It was a day that many European leaders had been waiting a long time for - Joe Biden's inauguration. Wednesday, saw the 78-year-old sworn in as the new US president, signalling an end to the unpredictability of the Donald Trump era. Politics doesn't have to be a "raging fire that destroys everything in its path", Biden said, words that were music to the ears of a large proportion of the political class in Europe. And in that, nobody was clearer and more honest than European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. "This new dawn in America is the moment we have been waiting for, for so long...