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‘A Crucial Summit At A Crucial Time’; Denmark Joins NATO AGS Program

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CHICAGO: Where do we find the money to pay for defense in a time of austerity and how do we leave Afghanistan gracefully. That sums up the two main threads of the second NATO summit held in America.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters this morning that this is a “crucial summit at a crucial time” for the 28-member alliance. Money will loom large as Europe’s slow-motion financial crisis continues and its governments begin to face fiscal crises as tax revenues dry up and economic growth continues at a tepid pace, at best. Rasmussen made the central role of funding very clear. Keep reading →

Published May 20, 2012 at 12:13 PM

The Deep Dish On The NATO Summit

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CHICAGO: Air shows and NATO summits deserve their own color coverage if only because they are often so much more interesting when viewed from the participant’s point of view, so here goes.

First, in the interests of full disclosure, I am an unabashed Chicago lover and this summit looks, so far, to be good for Chicago. I was walking to the press hotel and a lady asked for directions to the street the hotel is on. She, of course, was a reporter. When I mentioned that I had grown up here, she said, “Lucky man. I’d never been here. Great city.” True, and now she and many of the other 1,500 journalists here are getting their first look at my kind of town. Keep reading →

Published May 19, 2012 at 5:03 PM