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A federalized Europe isn’t in America’s interest

Andrew A. Mich­ta is senior fel­low and direc­tor of the Scow­croft Strat­e­gy Ini­tia­tive at the Atlantic Coun­cil of the Unit­ed States. Views expressed here are his own. There’s a sea change com­ing to Europe, and its con­se­quences for America’s rela­tions with key allies haven’t yet reg­is­tered in Wash­ing­ton. Pre­dom­i­nant­ly dri­ven by pres­sure from Berlin and Paris,…

UAE Reverses Visa Ban on Nigeria, Signs Billion-Dollar Investment Deal, President Says

Nige­ri­ans are prais­ing the lift­ing of a visa ban by the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates fol­low­ing a meet­ing in Abu Dhabi this week between Pres­i­dent Bola Tin­ubu and Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates Pres­i­dent Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Niger­ian author­i­ties also secured an invest­ment deal worth bil­lions of dol­lars, accord­ing to the pres­i­den­cy. Niger­ian pres­i­den­tial spokesper­son Ajuri…

The US can rebuild trust abroad – by declassifying incriminating intelligence | David Adler and Misty Rebik

We just returned from a del­e­ga­tion to Brazil, Chile and Colom­bia. Each coun­try is still seek­ing answers about the his­to­ry of US inter­ven­tion On the morn­ing of 11 Sep­tem­ber 1973, the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency briefed Pres­i­dent Richard Nixon about the Chilean military’s immi­nent plan to “trig­ger mil­i­tary action against the Allende gov­ern­ment”. By noon, bombs…