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Der letzte NATO-Gipfel in Lissabon ist das Thema meiner neuesten Kolumne im Social Europe Journal:

Politicians love bombastic rhetoric and one of their annoying habits is to call summits historical, especially when they themselves attended them. Fortunately, this judgment is going to be made by future historians and not by a communiqué. Be this as it may, the last NATO summit in Lisbon was a remarkable gathering with remarkable results. If it could be called ‘historic’, so the unsurprising characterisation by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, remains to be seen. Continue here