Romania Now Last Hurdle For Rutte As NATO Chief After Hungary, Slovak Sign On

Romania remains the final country yet to give its support to longtime Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte becoming NATO’s next secretary-general after Hungary dropped its objections following meetings in Brussels and Slovakia’s president appeared to signal his country’s support. One of the main holdouts, Hungary, dropped its resistance on June 18 when Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Rutte had agreed to honor an agreement reached with Stoltenberg that that no Hungarian personnel will take part in the activities of NATO in Ukraine and no Hungarian funds will be used to…

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Επόμενος γγ του ΝΑΤΟ

Following the recent European elections, where Hungarians voted in huge numbers in favour of #peace, we reached an important agreement with #NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg . We agreed that no Hungarian personnel will take part in the activities of NATO in Ukraine and no Hungarian funds will be used to support them.  Our next step this week was to ensure that this agreement can stand the test of time. After yesterday’s meeting in Brussels, PM Mark Rutte confirmed that he fully supports this deal and will continue to do so,…

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Why the West should stop talking about the “rules-based order”

Citing the rules-based order is meant to blur the distinction btw binding and non-binding rules. This enables the US and Western allies to present themselves as the upholders of universal principles while tweaking the rules to suit their own needshttps://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2024/06/why-the-west-should-stop-talking-about-the-rules-based-order

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The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world

As we see news reports on the current G7 meetings in Italy, for perspective, it is worth rereading Martin Wolf’s article on last year’s G7 meeting in Hiroshima titled :   “The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world.” Consider three of his main points: Martin WolfMAY 23 2023 The G7 must accept that it cannot run the world American hegemony and the group’s economic dominance are now history https://www.ft.com/content/c8cf024d-87b7-4e18-8fa2-1b8a3f3fbba1

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‘We Are the World Power.’ How Joe Biden Leads

In June, he called Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan from Air Force One on the way to a summit in Madrid, in hopes of getting Erdogan’s support for expanding the alliance. Dangling a one-on-one meeting, Biden said of Turkey’s long-sought access to America’s F-16 fighter jets, “Let’s find a way to get that done,” according to the White House. By March 2024, Sweden and Finland were in. “Everybody thought, including you guys, thought I was crazy,” Biden says. “Guess what? I did it.” After both countries applied for membership in…

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