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International Monetary Fund Financial Counsellor and Director Tobias Adrian (L) and Advisor Paul Hiebert (R) walk into their joint press conference on the Global Financial Stability Report at the IMF Headquarters April 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. The Spring meetings of the IMF/World Bank are through April 23rd. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
SOUTH CHINA SEA (June 11, 2019) Sailors haul fueling lines on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85). McCampbell is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Isaac Maxwell/Released)
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IMF Financial Counselor Tobias Adrian and Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department Fabio Natalucci provide the Global Financial Stability Report update during the COVID-19 Pandemic at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. on June 25, 2020. IMF Photo/Cory Hancock
SEA OF JAPAN (Aug. 12, 2020) Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Eric Hayford, left, from Akron, Ohio, collects sealed COVID-19 test samples aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18). New Orleans, part of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners, and serves as a ready response force to defend security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kelby Sanders)
International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals answers a question during the Global Financial Stability Report press conference Ocotber 9, 2013 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
International Monetary Fund Financial Counsellor and Director Tobias Adrian (2nd R), Advisor Paul Hiebert (L), Deputy Director Peter Dattels (2nd L) and Assistant Director Matthew Jones (2nd R) hold a joint press conference on the Global Financial Stability Report at the IMF Headquarters April 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. The Spring meetings of the IMF/World Bank are through April 23rd. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
International Monetary Fund Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary José Viñals answers question to the Global Financial Stability Report press conference April 13, 2016 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
(L-R) IDB Vice-President for Sectors and Knowledge Santiago Levy; Former Minister of Finance of Chile Andres Velasco; IMF Financial Counselor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department Jose Vinals; Senior Fellow for Latin American Studies and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations Shannon O’Neil; and Director of Harvard’s Center for International Development Ricardo Hausmann attend the High Level Conference on Latin America “Rising Challenges to Growth and Stability in a Shifting Global Environment” on June 1, 2015 at International Monetary Fund Headquarters in Washington, DC. ©IMF Photo
Miguel Castilla, Former Minister of Economy and Finance, Peru, speaks at the 2015 High Level Conference on Latin America - Rising Challenges to Growth and Stability in a Shifting Global Environment on Monday, June 1 at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. IMF Photo/Ryan Rayburn
International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals (R) and Advisor Matthew Jones (L) walk to their seats for the Global Financial Stability Report press conference October 9, 2013 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Colonel Serge Charles Allou Sima, Gabon Police, holds his certificate of participation during the graduation ceremony of the 14th Protection of Civilians Course at the CoESPU in Vicenza, Italy, Feb. 21, 2017. (U.S. Army Photo by Visual Information Specialist Paolo Bovo/released)
Meeting at PISM: THE WAY FORWARD AFTER NEW START
On 10 February 2011 Rose Gottemoeller spoke at PISM about New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
Rose Gottemoeller was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, on April 6, 2009. She was the chief negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation. Since 2000, she had been with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She most recently was a senior associate in the Carnegie Russia & Eurasia Program in Washington, D.C., where she worked on U.S.–Russian relations and nuclear security and stability. She also served as the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center from January 2006 – December 2008.
Formerly Deputy Undersecretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation and before that, Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and National Security, also at the Department of Energy, she was responsible for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States. She first joined the Department of Energy in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.
Prior to her work at the Department of Energy, Ms. Gottemoeller served for 3 years as Deputy Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1993 to 1994, she served on the National Security Council in the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs, with responsibility for denuclearization in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. Previously, she was a social scientist at RAND and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. She has taught on Soviet military policy and Russian security at Georgetown University.
Ms. Gottemoeller received a B.S. from Georgetown University, and a M.A. from George Washington University. She is fluent in Russian.
(FLTR) Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, United Kingdom; Global Agenda Council on Europe, Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Alexander Stubb, Prime Minister of Finland; Young Global Leader, Enda Kenny, Taoiseach of Ireland, Laimdota Straujuma, Prime Minister of Latvia and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany are captured during the session 'Europe's Twin Challenges: Growth and Stability' in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 22, 2015.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Remy Steinegger
International Monetary Fund Financial Economic Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department Tobias Adrian (C) along with Fabio Natalucci (2nd R), Anna Ilyina (2ndL), Peter Breuer (L) and Randa Elnagar (R) will discuss the Global Financial Stability Report at the IMF Headquarters during the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe.
International Monetary Fund Financial Counsellor and Director Tobias Adrian answers a question at a joint press conference on the Global Financial Stability Report at the IMF Headquarters April 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. The Spring meetings of the IMF/World Bank are through April 23rd. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals answers a question during the Global Financial Stability Report press conference Ocotber 9, 2013 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
From left to right; U.S. Army Col. Darius S. Gallegos, CoESPU deputy director, Mrs. Robin Smith political advisor to the U.S. Army Africa Commanding General, Monsieur Han Theyssens, and Brig. Gen. Giovanni Pietro Barbano, Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) director, pose for a photo following the graduation ceremony of the 14th Protection of Civilians Course at the CoESPU in Vicenza, Italy, February 21, 2017. (U.S. Army Photo by Visual Information Specialist Paolo Bovo/released)
International Monetary Fund Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary José Viñals answers question to the Global Financial Stability Report press conference April 13, 2016 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
PHILIPPINE SEA (Sept. 14, 2020) Sailors handle the phone and distance line aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) as the ship conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE 11). Germantown, part of the America Amphibious Ready Group assigned to Amphibious Squadron 11, along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility to enhance interoperability with allies and partners, and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Taylor DiMartino)
The “Project for Livelihood Improvement in Tajik-Afghan Cross-border Areas” is a new three-year initiative, financed by the Government of Japan and implemented by UNDP in Tajikistan in cooperation with UNDP in Afghanistan.
This project will support rehabilitation of more than 75 rural infrastructure facilities to improve direct access of more than 176,400 vulnerable people, including women living in rural communities, to schools, hospitals, irrigation, drinking water and energy supply.
Learn more about this exciting initiative.
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 24JAN14 - Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum (L) introduces Philipp M. Hildebrand (C), Vice-Chairman, BlackRock, United Kingdom and Mario Draghi (R), President, European Central Bank, Frankfurt during the session 'The Path from Crisis to Stability' at the Annual Meeting 2014 of the World Economic Forum at the congress centre in Davos, January 24, 2014.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Remy Steinegger
International Monetary Fund Financial Economic Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department Tobias Adrian (C) along with Fabio Natalucci (2nd R), Anna Ilyina (2ndL), Peter Breuer (L) and Randa Elnagar (R) will discuss the Global Financial Stability Report at the IMF Headquarters during the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe.
Labour Party Deputy Leader and Director of Elections, Joan Burton today launched “Vote YES for Stability”, the party’s animated video on the Stability Treaty.
Speaking at the launch, Minister Burton said: “This animated video is a short and simple guide to the main issues that arise from the Stability Treaty and it outlines some of the reasons why we believe that a YES vote is crucial for Ireland.
“We hope that the use of simple visualisations and key messages in the video will make the YES arguments accessible to an online audience who may be more accustomed to using online platforms to inform themselves on various issues.
“This Treaty is about ensuring a stable currency which will increase investor confidence in Ireland which will in turn bring about economic recovery. This is why it is vital that we vote YES on May 31st.”
Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.
The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.
The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.
The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.
May 25th
10h00-12h00 | Roundtable III
Roundtable: State of the Union – Portuguese Members of the European Parliament (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese
Moderator: Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL; Journalist TSF)
Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar (EPP)
Carlos Zorrinho (S&D)
António Marinho e Pinto (ALDE)
João Ferreira (GUE / NGL)
Pedro Mota Soares (CDS-PP) (tbc)
12h00 – 14h00 – Lunch Break
14h00 – 15h45 |Parallel Sessions III
Panel 7 – Economy, Energy and Geopolitics (Room C201)
Moderator: Timea Pal (CEI-IUL)
Simon Schlegel (ISG) & Allison Nathan Araujo de Miranda (ISCSP): “EU Global Strategy 2020-2030: the Revival of the Franco-German Consensus-Engine in face of the EU-Lusophone Trade Relations”
Paloma Diaz Topete (College of Europe): “In Varietate Concordia or Divide et Impera? The Security Implications of Chinese FDI in EU Member States”
Natallia Tsiareshchanka (College of Europe; University of Kent): “Nord Stream 2: when geopolitical and commercial interests are at stake”
Zuzanna Gulczyńska (Adam Mickiewicz University, College of Europe, University Lille 2): “The energy cooperation between the EU and Algeria – what legal future?”
Panel 8 – Soft & Normative Power (Room C302)
Moderator: Ana Mónica Fonseca (CEI-IUL)
Idalina Conde (ISCTE-IUL): “Tables as metaphors. Europe in the World and cultural diplomacy”
Andrea Perilli (College of Europe): “Erasmus student or EU ambassador? People-to-people contact in the European Neighbourhood policy: the cases of Georgia, Ukraine and Tunisia”
Osman Sabri Kiratli (Bogazici University): “When do Voters Choose to Delegate?: Europeans’ Attitudes on Multilateral Aid”
João Espada Rodrigues (CEI-IUL): “EU and Democracy Promotion”
Nezka Figelj (University of Trieste): “EU not only a payer but also a player in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA)”
15h45 – 16h15 – Coffee Break
16h15 – 17h45 | Parallel Sessions IV
Panel 9 – EU and Crisis Management (Room C201)
Moderator: Diogo Lemos (CEI-IUL)
Csaba Toro (Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary): “External institutional partnerships as vehicles of implementation in pursuit of effective and adaptive EU contribution to international crisis management”
Inês Marques Ribeiro (CEI-IUL): “A critical discourse analysis of the normative justification of the EU’s crisis management actorness”
Pablo Arconada Ledesma (Universidad de Valladolid): “European Union’s Missions In Somalia: Ten Years Of Successes And Failures (2008-2018)”
Panel 10 – Political Parties, Populism, Euroscepticism (Room C301)
Moderator: Riccardo Marchi (CEI-IUL)
Ewa Szczepankiewicz-Rudzka (Jagiellonian University, Krakow): “From Consensus to Skepticism?: Attitudes of Polish Society towards European Integration”
Ana Mónica Fonseca (CEI-IUL): “The SPD in government: a party in crisis”
Pedro Ponte e Sousa (FCSH-UNL & IPRI): “Portuguese foreign relations with the United States in the age of Trump: aligning with the superpower or supporting a European global stance?”
Teona Lavrelashvili (European Commission, KU Leuven) & Alex Andrione-Moylan (KU Leuven): “The populist playbook in the Western Balkans: Case of Serbia and Montenegro”
18h00 – 20h00 | Roundtable IV
Closing Roundtable The Future of Transatlantic Relations (Aud. B203):
Moderator: Bárbara Reis (Público)
Sven Biscop (Egmont Royal Institute for Foreign Relations, Brussels)
Mike Haltzel (Center for Transatlantic Relations; Johns Hopkins University SAIS)
Carlos Gaspar (IPRI-NOVA)
Susana Pedro
September 7, 2011 -- Bringing together voices from Afghanistan, the Netherlands and the United States, “Empowering Women in Afghanistan: Stability Through Rural Development,” highlighted the state of Afghan women in rural areas, the promotion of stability through rural assistance to women, and ways in which America and Europe can work together to empower them.
The conference -- organized by the U.S. Embassy in The Hague and The Atlantic Commission -- highlighted the advantages of directing aid to programs for rural women.
(L-R) Matthew Jones; Division Chief Monetary and Capital Markets Department; Jennifer Elliott; Deputy Division Chief, Global Markets Analysis; José Viñals; IMF Financial Counsellor and Director of Monetary and Capital Markets; Peter Dattels; Deputy Director; Monetary and Capital Markets Department; Andreas Adriano; Senior Communications Officer at a Press Conference for the Global Financial Stability Report during the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 7, 2015 in Lima, Peru. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe
Commanding General, Brig. Gen. Giovanni Pietro Barbano (right), Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) director, addresses dignitaries and guests from Europe, Africa, Italy and the U.S. during the Graduation Ceremony of the 14th Protection of Civilians Course at the CoESPU in Vicenza, Italy, Feb. 21, 2017. (U.S. Army Photo by Visual Information Specialist Paolo Bovo/released)
International Monetary Fund Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals (C), Deputy Division Chief Chris Walker (L), and Deputy Director Peter Dattels (R) hold the joint press conference on the Global Financial Stability Report April 9, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
International Monetary Fund's Financial Counsellor and Director Jose Vinals answers a question during the Global Financial Stability Report press conference Ocotber 9, 2013 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Photograph/Stephen Jaffe
Gen. David H. Petraeus; commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan; testifies in front of the House Armed Services Committee in Washington; D.C.; Mar. 16. ISAF; in support of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan; conducts operations in Afghanistan to reduce the capability and will of the insurgency; support the growth in capacity and capability of the Afghan National Security Forces; and facilitate improvements in governance and socio-economic development; in order to provide a secure environment for sustainable stability that is observable to the population. (Photo by U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Joshua Treadwell) (Released)
Use knit interfacting to give the cuffs stability. This means for each cuff you cut one cuff piece from the rib-knit, and one identically-cut piece of knit interfacing.
The rectangles will be the width at the sleeve hem seamline (in this case, 9 3/4") by the total cuff depth. To get this latter number, double the desired cuff width, then add 2* seam allowance. I wanted a 2" cuff and I use a 1/2" seam allowance. So my cuff rectangle was 9 3/4" by 5". Sew the cuff together at the short sides. Fold lengthwise, wrong sides together, and press lightly. Stitch the cuff with raw edges and right-sides together on the sleeve end. Trim down seam allowance to 1/4", then zig zag together.
After the success of the A-20 Havoc, Douglas Aircraft began design of a successor, with an eye towards an aircraft that also would be able to replace the North American B-25 Mitchell and Martin B-26 Marauder as well. Using the A-20 as a model, famed aircraft designer Edward Heinemann came up with a light bomber design that could be flown by a single pilot. Though similar to the Havoc, the XA-26 Invader had a slightly wider fuselage, larger tail, and laminar-flow wings for better stability in dives. Since Douglas could build on the A-20’s success, testing went smoothly and the US Army Air Force was suitably impressed by its maiden flight in July 1942.
By this time, however, units in the Pacific had demonstrated the lethality of purpose-built low-level attack aircraft with massive forward armament, so the USAAF asked Douglas to develop the A-26 into a strafer as well. Douglas responded with two variants: the A-26B, with a solid gun nose that could carry anything from machine guns to a 75mm antitank gun, and the A-26C, with a glass nose for medium-altitude bombing. The noses themselves could be quickly exchanged to switch A-26Bs to A-26C bombers, and vice-versa. As in the A-20, a crew of three was provided, with the flight crew (the pilot and navigator/bombardier) forward and the gunner in a separate compartment in the rear, controlling both the remote dorsal and ventral turrets. A-26Cs could carry two guns in the nose, but these were deleted in production variants for four wing-mounted machine guns.
Douglas’ commitment to building transport aircraft and the modification of the XA-26A to the B/C dual variant delayed introduction to service until September 1944 in Europe, by which time the A-26 would be operating from newly-liberated bases in France and Italy. Though it arrived late, the A-26s in Europe saw significant action in the Battle of the Bulge and the final drive into Germany, operating mostly as medium bombers and occasionally as night interdiction aircraft. It showed enough potential that, much as Douglas had hoped, it replaced the A-20, B-25, and B-26 in USAAF service, remaining in postwar production.
Indeed, though the A-26 did see World War II service, most of its combat record would be after that war—namely in Korea. The 3rd Bombardment Group, based in Japan in June 1950, saw its A-26s rapidly deployed for Korean service, and undertook the first US Air Force attack on North Korea itself. The A-26 force was quickly augumented by aircraft deployed from the United States, and these undertook bombing sorties in the battles to hold the Pusan Perimeter and in the Inchon invasion. As the Korean War became a stalemate, and due to the interdiction campaign happening in North Korea, Communist forces were forced to resupply mostly at night, and the USAF A-26s in theater were switched to night interdiction operations. These were extremely dangerous in the mountainous Korean Peninsula, to say nothing of the danger from ground fire. Usually, A-26s would operate in hunter-killer teams, with one aircraft using a wing-mounted searchlight to illuminate a target while the other made its attack. A-26s bookended the Korean War by becoming the last USAF aircraft to attack targets in North Korea, just before the armistice was signed.
A total of 2452 Invaders had been built, and besides its American and French service, others were used in African colonial wars (namely in Angola and Nigeria) and by Indonesia in its invasion of East Timor in 1976, the last time A-26s were used in combat. The CIA also used them in covert operations, especially in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. A good number of A-26s were sold as surplus after the Vietnam War and were subsequently converted to firefighting aircraft. Though most of these have been retired in recent years, it ensured that there would be significant numbers of flyable Invaders left. Today, 96 aircraft remain in museums and in private collections.
"Margie," A-26C 44-35439, never served with the USAF: she was delivered to the French Armee de l'Air. This aircraft saw combat in the Indochina War, then was sold in 1954. It ended up in private hands and used as an executive aircraft, then was grounded in 1979, when Lynch Air Services of Billings, Montana bought it and used it as a spares source. Lynch did end up restoring 44-35459 to flyable condition in 1989, when it was sold to the Evergreen Aviation Museum. It was restored to wartime condition and placed on display as an aircraft of the 386th Bomb Group, based at Beaumont-sur-Oise, France, in 1945.
(If there is one complaint I have about the Evergreen collection, it is how crowded it is--I had difficulty finding a way to get a shot of Margie.)
Jeong Joon Yu (SK Group), Olga Algayerova (UNECE), Mark Harper (Secretary of State for Transport, UK), Volker Wissing (Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Germany), Hee-ryong Won (Minster of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Korea), Kris Peeters (European Investment Bank, EIB) and Carlos Monje (Under Secretary for Transportation Policy, US explore the role of transport in promoting economic co-operation, peace and stability in the Open Plenary "Transport as an enabler of sustainable economies, peace and stability in time of crisis". The event takes place during the International Transport Forum's 2023 Summit on "Transport Enabling Sustainable Economies" in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2023.
In 1998, the world of material handling underwent a major change with the introduction of the System of Active Stability (SAS) to Toyota forklifts.
This outstanding, sensor-based technology takes corrective action to prevent truck instability. The operations run smoothly, with reduced risk of accidents and damage. SAS strikes the right operational balance.
Learn more about Toyota SAS
The “Project for Livelihood Improvement in Tajik-Afghan Cross-border Areas” is a new three-year initiative, financed by the Government of Japan and implemented by UNDP in Tajikistan in cooperation with UNDP in Afghanistan.
This project will support rehabilitation of more than 75 rural infrastructure facilities to improve direct access of more than 176,400 vulnerable people, including women living in rural communities, to schools, hospitals, irrigation, drinking water and energy supply.
Learn more about this exciting initiative.
Route 90 in Bristol used to be operated by a variety of single and double decker buses of various ages. Since last year it has been almost exclusively in the hands of new route branded Streetdecks. One of them is seen here, passing along Castle Park.
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First Bristol - Wright Streetdeck - SN65 OMT - 35149 - Broad Weir, Bristol - June 20, 2016
Gym and fitness centre, with classes in kick boxing, cardio kick, stability ball, yoga as well as massage therapy room. Caters for people of all fitness levels for both men and women. Relaxed atmosphere with a great membership. My favourite place to train. Under refurbishment and will include sauna & solarium shortly
Jose Vinals, financial counsellor, IMF, speaks at the IMF Global Financial Stability Report news conference Wednesday April 17, 2013, at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C..
PHILIPPINE SEA (Aug. 13, 2019) Fire Controlman 2nd Class Jesse Printz, from Lothian, Md., fires a shot line from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) to the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) during a replenishment-at-sea. McCampbell is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Isaac Maxwell/Released)
Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.
The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.
The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.
The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.
May 25th
10h00-12h00 | Roundtable III
Roundtable: State of the Union – Portuguese Members of the European Parliament (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese
Moderator: Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL; Journalist TSF)
Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar (EPP)
Carlos Zorrinho (S&D)
António Marinho e Pinto (ALDE)
João Ferreira (GUE / NGL)
Pedro Mota Soares (CDS-PP) (tbc)
12h00 – 14h00 – Lunch Break
14h00 – 15h45 |Parallel Sessions III
Panel 7 – Economy, Energy and Geopolitics (Room C201)
Moderator: Timea Pal (CEI-IUL)
Simon Schlegel (ISG) & Allison Nathan Araujo de Miranda (ISCSP): “EU Global Strategy 2020-2030: the Revival of the Franco-German Consensus-Engine in face of the EU-Lusophone Trade Relations”
Paloma Diaz Topete (College of Europe): “In Varietate Concordia or Divide et Impera? The Security Implications of Chinese FDI in EU Member States”
Natallia Tsiareshchanka (College of Europe; University of Kent): “Nord Stream 2: when geopolitical and commercial interests are at stake”
Zuzanna Gulczyńska (Adam Mickiewicz University, College of Europe, University Lille 2): “The energy cooperation between the EU and Algeria – what legal future?”
Panel 8 – Soft & Normative Power (Room C302)
Moderator: Ana Mónica Fonseca (CEI-IUL)
Idalina Conde (ISCTE-IUL): “Tables as metaphors. Europe in the World and cultural diplomacy”
Andrea Perilli (College of Europe): “Erasmus student or EU ambassador? People-to-people contact in the European Neighbourhood policy: the cases of Georgia, Ukraine and Tunisia”
Osman Sabri Kiratli (Bogazici University): “When do Voters Choose to Delegate?: Europeans’ Attitudes on Multilateral Aid”
João Espada Rodrigues (CEI-IUL): “EU and Democracy Promotion”
Nezka Figelj (University of Trieste): “EU not only a payer but also a player in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA)”
15h45 – 16h15 – Coffee Break
16h15 – 17h45 | Parallel Sessions IV
Panel 9 – EU and Crisis Management (Room C201)
Moderator: Diogo Lemos (CEI-IUL)
Csaba Toro (Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary): “External institutional partnerships as vehicles of implementation in pursuit of effective and adaptive EU contribution to international crisis management”
Inês Marques Ribeiro (CEI-IUL): “A critical discourse analysis of the normative justification of the EU’s crisis management actorness”
Pablo Arconada Ledesma (Universidad de Valladolid): “European Union’s Missions In Somalia: Ten Years Of Successes And Failures (2008-2018)”
Panel 10 – Political Parties, Populism, Euroscepticism (Room C301)
Moderator: Riccardo Marchi (CEI-IUL)
Ewa Szczepankiewicz-Rudzka (Jagiellonian University, Krakow): “From Consensus to Skepticism?: Attitudes of Polish Society towards European Integration”
Ana Mónica Fonseca (CEI-IUL): “The SPD in government: a party in crisis”
Pedro Ponte e Sousa (FCSH-UNL & IPRI): “Portuguese foreign relations with the United States in the age of Trump: aligning with the superpower or supporting a European global stance?”
Teona Lavrelashvili (European Commission, KU Leuven) & Alex Andrione-Moylan (KU Leuven): “The populist playbook in the Western Balkans: Case of Serbia and Montenegro”
18h00 – 20h00 | Roundtable IV
Closing Roundtable The Future of Transatlantic Relations (Aud. B203):
Moderator: Bárbara Reis (Público)
Sven Biscop (Egmont Royal Institute for Foreign Relations, Brussels)
Mike Haltzel (Center for Transatlantic Relations; Johns Hopkins University SAIS)
Carlos Gaspar (IPRI-NOVA)
Susana Pedro