Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship

On Monday September 26th,  The Right Honourable John Bercow, MP Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom gave a public address at the Harvard Kennedy School Forum, followed by a Q&A moderated by Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Executive Director of the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship.

Gerard Baker, editor at large at The Wall Street Journal, Ambassador (Ret.) Nicholas Burns, Harvard professor of diplomacy and international relations, and Karen Donfried, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, discussed current developments in the Brexit process with Elaine Papoulias, executive director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at the John F. Kennedy Library on September 10th, 2019.

The world is holding its breath as it watches the final 60 days of Britain under Boris Johnson completing its frenzy of self-harm by leaving the European Union. At least that is the majority view in the democratic world even if the occupant of the White House applauds the event.

NPR's David Greene talks to Amanda Sloat of the Brookings Institution, and David Rennie of The Economist magazine, about the global standing of the U.S. The G-7 meetings in France wrap up Monday.

President Trump is continuing to raise the issue of readmitting Russia to the G7, and is still blaming President Obama for throwing Moscow out of the group. Former U.S. ambassador to NATO and Washington Post foreign columnist David Ignatius join Andrea Mitchell to discuss.

Thirty years ago this week, on August 23, 1989, more than 2 million citizens of the Baltic republics of the U.S.S.R. engineered one of the most dramatic and successful mass protests in Soviet history.

Donald Trump’s preposterous fixation with buying Greenland, initially treated as a distraction by American media and a joke by the Danish government, became less amusing Tuesday night when the president declared that he would be canceling his planned diplomatic trip to Denmark in retaliation. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had told the White House, that Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Arctic, wasn’t Denmark’s to sell.

Cathryn Cluver Ashbrook, Harvard Kennedy School, James Politi, Financial Times, and Steven Ricchiuto, Mizuho Securities, join 'The Exchange' to discuss what a declining German economy signals about the global economy.

As Britain races toward the Brexit cliff, the Trump administration must join other worried Americans in putting peace before trade.

The combination of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, both of whom came from privileged backgrounds and rode populist waves into office, has heightened expectations of renewed alignment between America and Britain. Their personal chemistry, shared antipathy toward the European Union and desire for a trade deal will improve bilateral ties in the near term. There will be a honeymoon period, including their first meeting next month at the G7 summit in France. Yet there will also be friction as Johnson seeks to balance domestic and foreign policy interests.