'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 Norbert Röttgen at #WSF2022 .

'I think the first thing is to not become #China 's hype man. China is 10-feet tall, not 30-feet tall,' Chris Murphy tells #WSF2022 .

Ukraine making significant advances Kherson right now. My hope as Warsaw Security Forum German Marshall Fund starts today w/ Олена Зеленська in Warsaw that UA will liberate Kherson. We cannot highlight enough the bravery of Ukrainians & imperative to win war. Michał Baranowski #WSF2022 Maria Zolkina

Packed room at WarsawSecurityForum 💕🇺🇦 #WSF22 for Олена Зеленська. Powerful moment at this year’s conference hosted by Fundacja Pułaskiego 💕🇺🇦 and German Marshall Fund.

.German Marshall Fund annual labor of love tracking European & US opinion, in partnership with Bertelsmann Foundation. Some findings as expected, some surprising--low public support for coming to Taiwan's aid militarily, for example. Curious what data points jump out at others. #TransatlanticTrends

This is infuriating. Headlines should make abundantly clear that this is in no way a legitimate election.

Great program from IFES and Foreign Policy on restoring trust in election results, and an important point from Chad Vickery about building a sense of agency among those working for democracy worldwide.

A Russian and an American in the running to lead the UN agency that will shape the future of the global Internet. This one warrants more attention than it's been getting.

#IDD22 Civil society is at the heart of the fight for democracy. Martin Klingst tells the story of the struggle on the ground in Belarus with protesters, democracy builders, and civil society. Read more bit.ly/3RJQ2l2

“Everybody knows the fight was fixed. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich,” Leonard Cohen sang in 1988.

Today Blackstone, a private equity giant whose boss Stephen Schwarzman made more than $1 billion last year alone, owns rights to that song.

this remains an all-time story about the queen

“No U.S. diplomats have been killed this year, anywhere in the world,” he said. “But three U.S. State Department officials have died in the Washington area — all hit by vehicles. Two have been hit on bikes. One was right here.”
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