📣🇩🇪 GMF Senior Vice President for Transatlantic Security @ClaudMajor is listed in the @politico Germany, @WELT, and BUSINESS INSIDER Germany Power List 2026 as part of Germany's Top 50 most influential personalities whose actions have helped move Germany forward.
Congratulations to Claudia on this well-deserved acknowledgment!
#POWERLIST26
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GMF President @AdeHoopScheffer on @ORF's ZIB 2:
"What the EU is struggling with is to show a unified position, and a unified position on Ukraine at a time where the United States is sending a very clear signal to Europe, which is Europeans you need to take the full responsibility for what comes next for Ukraine."
⤵️ Watch the full interview in German here: https://t.co/N0DSnFYIju
🇪🇺"We must not get stuck in a cycle of constant crisis management. Companies and governments often react only to the next crisis. But we must ask: Where do we want to be in five or 10 years—and what will it take to get there? Europe needs to think less traditionally and much more creatively," GMF President @AdeHoopScheffer told @DiePressecom's @dafreudenthaler.
Read the translated interview on the state of transatlantic relations and the high cost of European independence👇
🔗https://t.co/cr4UrcuNpa
🇨🇳🇺🇸 Trump arrived in China for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jingping earlier today.
Listen to @GMFAsia's @BonnieGlaser discuss what to expect from the Trump-Xi summit with CISS’s @mawangcun1 on China Global Podcast.
🔗 https://t.co/YigCzT85i2
🇨🇳 Despite speculation that Beijing may exploit current U.S. distractions to move on Taiwan, @GMFAsia's @BonnieGlaser and @EurasiaGroup's @amanda_hsiao argue in @ForeignAffairs that China believes time is on its side.
Read their analysis of why Beijing is playing the long game on Taiwan and what it means for U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific:
🔗 https://t.co/wBte2CFaIK
“The question is often posed as whether Mr. Trump would — or even could — really withdraw the United States from NATO. But the more useful question is whether Mr. Trump could undermine NATO to the point that he has effectively withdrawn the United States, to which the answer is: Maybe he already has,”
GMF Vice President @ClaudMajor argues in her new op-ed for the @nytimes.
🔗 Read it here: https://t.co/ePjjnBL9MF
“There is a need to rebalance the transatlantic relationship. I think we’ve [focused] too much on purely managing this relationship and not addressing the hard questions.”
GMF President @AdeHoopScheffer joined former US Ambassador to NATO @LuteDoug, @ECFR Senior Fellow Ellie Geranmayeh, and @nytimes Editor Serge Schmemann at @CFR_org to discuss Europe and the war in Iran.
🔗 Watch the panel: https://t.co/J6ZTp60eqb
As Europe’s security model shifts from US-led to more European-led, GMF is launching a major initiative to deliver a roadmap for defense in a new era of transatlantic responsibility-sharing.
Our Senior Vice President for Transatlantic Security, @ClaudMajor, explains the launch of the European Defense Roadmap Initiative at this critical time.
🔗 More info: https://t.co/Yx5C0fSsD6
GMF expert @VeghZsuzsanna in @michelleinbklyn's @nytimes column on what Orban's defeat means for the rest of the world:
"'There is a strong narrative of commitment to the European Union and NATO'...And since Magyar doesn’t have a personal relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 'some sanctions against Israel would likely be acceptable' to a Tisza government."
➡️ Read the full opinion piece here: https://t.co/fs4eepj5Qh
🇭🇺 After 16 years in power, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has suffered a crushing election defeat.
On @CNBC, GMF's @VeghZsuzsanna discussed Hungary's election and what the result could mean for Hungary’s relations with the European Union, the United States and Russia.
↪️ Watch the interview in German here: https://t.co/uWwT49EZqs
🇭🇺 Hungary’s parliamentary election on April 12 is becoming the most consequential since Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party returned to power in 2010.
In her op-ed for @just_security, GMF’s @VeghZsuzsanna outlines the stakes for Hungary, the US and the EU.
Read it: https://t.co/w4iWO7Q0rs
GMF’s @ClaudMajor told @FT's @HenryJFoy :
“For many Europeans, Rutte’s approach feels like Nato is a US club, rather than an alliance of 32 members.”
🔗 Read the newsletter: https://t.co/emrJv9BZjD
As NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrived in Washington this week, it is clear that the alliance is at an inflection point.
While the European security architecture enters a period of disruptive and structural change, GMF is launching a major new initiative to deliver a roadmap for European defense in a new era of transatlantic responsibility-sharing.
Find out more: https://t.co/Yx5C0fSsD6
GMF’s @ian_lesser spoke to @thehill:
“Clearly, European allies have a strong preference for resolving this through diplomacy, finding an acceptable exit for the United States and for Iran and for Israel, that will not be easy to do.”
Read more: https://t.co/QrDOFSi6Af
GMF’s @SudhaDavidWilp spoke to @thehill on where U.S.–Europe relations stand ahead of Marco Rubio’s visit to Europe and amid the ongoing war with Iran:
“They need the US to continue cooperating on Ukraine, and so there is this sense that they don’t want to outright reject what the administration is asking because it is in Europe’s interest and it’s necessary to have a constructive relationship with the White House. But they don’t see the strategic objective nor the strategy to say we’re all in.”
Read: https://t.co/fEOEmwF5To
“On the one hand, Europeans still need a strong US involvement, leadership and security guarantees in the European theater. And on the other hand, in the Middle Eastern theater. The US needs European allies.”
GMF President @AdeHoopScheffer spoke with @ElBeardsley on @MorningEdition as Marco Rubio prepares to meet his G7 counterparts in Paris for the first time since the start of the war with Iran.
Watch below 👇
🔗 https://t.co/nYop607ZXA
🇩🇪 The ongoing war with Iran has become a stress test of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government.
GMF’s @markus_ziener explains how the Iran war is testing Germany’s energy security, economic resilience, and support for Ukraine.
🔗 Read more: https://t.co/WNhky4giOV
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