Center for Strategic

Is European defense becoming a necessity?

As Western leaders gathered in Munich this weekend for the Munich Security Conference, warnings about Russian President Putin's possible next moves were mixed with Europe's growing concerns that it could soon be abandoned by the United States as aid to Ukraine is stalled in Congress and former President Trump casts doubts on America's commitment to NATO.

In the US, Mitsotakis vows to fight graft, meets investors

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has accused Greece's leftist-led government of being under the tutelage of "a new generation of oligarchs," while vowing to reform the debt-wracked country's business environment by combating graft and safeguarding the rule of law if he becomes prime minister.