Smart Take | NATO Summit 2023 Begins in Lithuania

Watch Robin Quinville, Director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program, previewing the main focus points for the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius.

This week in Vilnius, Lithuania, world leaders gather to discuss the future of the NATO security alliance. Robin Quinville, Director of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program, looks at the focus points of this year's summit, including continuing support for Ukraine, Sweden’s outstanding membership, and planning for defense and deterrence.

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The Global Europe Program is focused on Europe’s capabilities, and how it engages on critical global issues. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues. We examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our initiatives include “Ukraine in Europe”—an examination of what it will take to make Ukraine’s European future a reality. But we also examine the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE, Europe’s energy security, transatlantic trade disputes, and challenges to democracy. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media.   Read more

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