Europe

Issue

Europe

Home to America’s oldest allies, Europe has been central to America’s alliance network since World War II and the creation of NATO. Europe is confronting challenges to prosperity and traditional values from bureaucratic overreach and foreign adversaries, but encouraging progress is on display by those governments pursuing free market, transatlantic strategies while revitalizing their defense capabilities.

COMMENTARY

U.S. First Principles vs. European Bureaucratic Overreach

Jun 4, 2026 4 min read

Author

Paul McCarthy

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5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

Saving Britain, Saving the West - Our Last Chance

Commentary

Prince Philip Was an Inspiration to the British People Nile Gardiner, PhD

Apr 12, 2021 2 min read

Commentary

European Defense Spending Still Rising, but COVID-19 Poses Retrenching Risk Daniel Kochis

Apr 6, 2021 5 min read

Commentary

Biden Accurately Pegs Putin as a Killer

Apr 1, 2021 7 min read

Commentary

Europe and Strategic Ambiguity Walter Lohman

Mar 30, 2021 3 min read

Event

Mar 25

11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

VIRTUAL EVENT: The Crown Under Fire

Commentary

U.S. Should Encourage Albania’s Transition to Free Market Economy

Mar 24, 2021 2 min read

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How the Biden Administration Should Approach Belarus Alexis Mrachek

Mar 22, 2021 14 min read

Commentary

An American Defense of Britain’s Constitutional Monarchy Joseph Loconte, Ph.D.

Mar 19, 2021 6 min read

Experts on Europe

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Nile Gardiner, PhD

Director, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom and Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow

@NileGardiner

Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow

@Gundisalvus

Senior Research Fellow, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom