NATO battlefields after the Riga summit
La Lettre Sentinel n°43-44, January-February 2007
Language of the original publication: French
NATO’s Riga summit, held at the end of last November, was the typical example of a spectacular non-event. Striking especially by the contrast between the publicity made for the gathering of 26 Heads of State and government on the one hand, and the piteous outcome of the meeting on the other. The marketing-type announcements planned for the occasion had gradually left the place to the invading reality represented by the deplorable performance of the allies in Afghanistan. This latter being, in addition, only one of the (far too) many symptoms of the growing malaise within Alliance.
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(Hajnalka Vincze, NATO battlefields after the Riga summit, La Lettre Sentinel n°43-44, January-February 2007, 27,000 characters)