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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Julia Davis |Anda Bologa |Bill Echikson
Russia’s propaganda machine has its doubts about President Trump and whether he will deliver Ukraine’s hoped-for capitulation. And yet this tantalizing dream continues to course through every fiber of its being. The language of information warfare may be crude, but there’s a recognition that after three years of stubborn popular resistance, Ukraine cannot simply be told to give up (because it won’t.)So the Kremlin’s selective truth tellers have other ideas in mind.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
logicallyfacts.com | Bill Echikson
Source: CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2023– Source: EP/ Wikicommons Europe has "an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship," Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated on January 7 while announcing the end of third-party fact-checking in the U.S. His allegation taps into a long-rumbling series of confrontations in the Transatlantic community between Big Tech and EU regulators.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Emil Avdaliani |Bill Echikson |Matthew Eitel |David Kagan
The official ceremony to mark the start of construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway was held on December 27. The event featured high-level officials from Beijing and Central Asian states and followed the signing of an investment agreement a week earlier. The line, which is designed to carry 10-12 million tons of cargo a year, will stretch approximately 486km (302 miles), linking Kashgar in Western China to Andijan in Uzbekistan and passing through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Bill Echikson |Christopher Cytera |Ronan Murphy
Since the November US presidential elections, Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago. The CEOs congratulated Trump on his victory, and many have donated to his inauguration ceremony. In return, most hope for either a reduction of regulation or regulation that will help their companies.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Bill Echikson |Natalia Martinez |Padraig Nolan |Christopher Cytera
When the European Union passed its landmark Digital Markets Act, it included the power to break up Silicon Valley giants — but only as a last resort, a sort of nuclear option. Brussels limited itself to significant but marginal tweaks such as loosening control of the Google and Apple app stores and increasing interoperability between Meta’s WhatsApp and other messaging apps. The Biden administration wants to go further.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Elisabeth Braw |Alina Polyakova |Ronan Murphy |Bill Echikson
Not for the first time, a Chinese merchant ship has been accused of ripping to pieces sensitive seabed infrastructure belonging to NATO nations in the Baltic Sea. Not for the first time, there are accusations of gray zone warfare, which is to say authoritarian state aggression short of outright war. But, for the first time, something different is happening, and it could get ugly.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Alina Polyakova |Ronan Murphy |Bill Echikson |Padraig Nolan
Ronan MurphySo good afternoon, everybody. Thank you very much for joining this call. This is a press briefing hosted by the Center for European Policy Analysis, and we’re going to be discussing issues in and around the upcoming AI Safety Summit and what might come from it, what might not. And we’re taking views from both sides of the Atlantic here today.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Leon Mangasarian |Alina Polyakova |Ronan Murphy |Bill Echikson
The scenario in which a returning President Donald Trump exits NATO or, more likely, undermines confidence in Article 5 is all too familiar across the alliance. So, too, are the policies Europe needs to keep itself secure and free: stronger militaries, European nuclear deterrence, more cooperation, and far higher readiness. The problem is not policy but politics: what if what’s needed is impossible? Most of Europe has a defense implementation problem.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Alina Polyakova |Ronan Murphy |Bill Echikson |Walter C. Clemens
Over the past decade, the European Commission made tech regulation a top priority, passing a slew of new laws increasing the responsibility of platforms and attempting to thwart so-called digital “gatekeepers.” But Europe’s digital transformation is far from complete. The continent faces major challenges, from security to economic competitiveness. A new Commission must now switch gears to ensure that Europe can compete on the world stage. That starts with tech.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Aliide Naylor |Bill Echikson |Oona Lagercrantz |Marija Golubeva
In the Baltic states, as in Ukraine, Donald Trump’s November 5 election victory was marked by a deep breath followed by a focus on the positive. Baltic politicians (past and present) started to note the potential benefits. Former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, in a recent interview with ERR, seemed to take the increasingly popular tack that the Biden administration has been milquetoast during the four years it has been in power, while also expressing cautious optimism.
