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Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen is a former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
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  • Europe’s Myopic Defense Cuts

    Series: The World in Words
    2010-11-26
    All over Europe, defense expenditures are proving to be the easiest of targets as governments sim to slash their budget deficits. But if Europeans want their ambitions to be taken seriously - and not to alienate their US allies - they must accept that there are limits to how much military budgets can be cut.... read
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  • Defusing Russia’s Energy Weapon

    Series: Europe at Home and Abroad
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    2009-12-07
    As Winter approaches, many people in Central and Eastern Europe remember the chill caused last winter by Russia's deliberate cut-off of gas supplies. Until the EU establishes a common energy policy and a single market for natural gas, Russia will be tempted to use new blockades to continue the divide-and-rule policy that the world has witnessed since Vladimir Putin came to power.... read
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  • The EU’s Hour, or Europe’s Darkest Hour?

    Series: The World in Words
    2009-03-25
    So far, Europe’s leaders seem to be mostly preoccupied with finding national answers to the global economic crisis, with leaders of “Old Europe” reluctant to open up their coffers for “New Europe.” If this attitude prevails, the European Project could well become paralyzed, which not only would delay economic recovery, but would also generate dire political consequences.... read
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  • Ireland Must Go

    Series: The World in Words
    2008-06-14
    Ireland has gained enormously from EU membership, rising from poverty to become of Europe's richest countries – and thus exemplifying the benefits of European integration. But now, having rejected the Lisbon Treaty, the Irish should do the rest of Europe a favor and withdraw from the EU.... read
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  • NATO’s Dangerous Signals

    Series: Europe at Home and Abroad
    2008-04-05
    By denying Ukraine and Georgia a "Membership Action Plan" and allowing Greece to veto membership for Macedonia, NATO's Bucharest summit sent two dangerous signals. First, Russia has successfully re-asserted its "sphere of influence" in Europe, and, second, all NATO member states are free to blackmail their partners into supporting their own narrow goals.... read
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  • The EU’s Appeasement of Russia

    Series: The World in Words
    2007-04-30
    By refusing to offer any prospect of eventual membership, the EU is abandoning Ukraine – which once again finds itself in the eye of a political hurricane – and other post-Soviet countries like Georgia and Moldova, to Russia's drive to expand its sphere of influence.... read
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  • A Fair Deal for Turkey

    Series: The World in Words
    2006-11-16
    Turkey has been given what looks like an ultimatum from the EU Commission: open your ports for ships from Cyprus within a month, or you may risk a halt to the EU accession talks now underway. At the same time, the Commission’s latest report on Turkey’s progress toward accession notes that political reforms have slowed down, further calling into question the country’s future EU membership. ... read
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  • Coexistence or No Existence

    Series: The World in Words
    2006-02-16
    Now that the conflict over the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad is dying down, or so I hope, it is clear that the only winners are the extremists -- in the Islamic World and in Europe. ... read
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  • Coming to Grips with History

    Series: The Worldly Philosophers
    2005-05-04
    May 9th will be the mother of all celebrations in Moscow. The victory over Nazi-Germany 60 years ago will be commemorated and the human sacrifices to this end honoured. So far, so good. But some nations will be missing from the party. Two Baltic presidents have decided to stay home, because their hosts are not willing to concede that there is more to the history of WWII’s end than the victory over Hitler. Their peoples had to face half a century of occupation because of a deal struck before the war’s onset by Hitler and Stalin, the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 that divided Eastern Europe between Nazi-Germany and the Soviet Union. ... read
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