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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Dec. 10 headed to Paris and EU and NATO headquarters, with Russia tensions and climate in the spotlight for his first foreign trip since he took office this week.

A draft EU summit statement about potential sanctions on Turkey is "disappointing," presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalın said on Dec. 9. 

Speaking during a German Marshall Fund virtual think tank event, Kalın said he has reviewed the document and hoped EU leaders would "avoid that language of sanctions and threats against Turkey, because sanctions will never work."

On the eve of the latest legislation in the United States House of Representatives putting pressure on Turkey over its S-400 missile system purchase, Nicholas Danforth - a veteran Turkey analyst at the German Marshall Fund - posted a warning on Twitter that perfectly captured the dilemma in US-Turkey relations:

Russia's government has added the German Marshall Fund of the United States to its list of foreign entities whose activities are deemed "undesirable" in the country.

A major social network in Moldova is being used to spread Russian propaganda, according to a study made public on Friday by the Institute for Public Policy and developed in the framework of a project funded by the German Marshall Fund.

Although polarized on various political issues, the Turkish people share the most similar views over Syrian refugees in the country, a survey conducted by the Istanbul Bilgi University Center for Migration Research in partnership with the German Marshall Fund (GMF) revealed on Feb. 5.

Vice President of the German Marshall Fund Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff agrees with remarks that Serbia has to choose which bloc it wants to belong to.

Nevertheless, he added that it has already done so by entering the EU membership negotiations.

Nevertheless, he added that it has already done so by entering the EU membership negotiations.

Kleine-Brockhoff told the Beta agency in an interview that basic regulations of the European Union do not prohibit member countries from maintaining good relations with countries outside the Union, and that by joining the EU Serbia could influence EU's foreign policy.

The Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, a democracy aid organisation established in 2007 by the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was declared 'undesirable' by the Russian government on Tuesday under a controversial law targeting alleged foreign political influence, together with several US non-governmental organisations.

US Senator John McCain said on Friday that the world desperately needs the US and Europe to unite once more to preserve globalism. The current chairman of the armed services committee in the US Senate said that Washington should restore cooperation with the EU — long one of America's "most important alliances."