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Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) The Center for European Policy Analysis | CEPA’s mission is to ensure a strong and democratic transatlantic alliance for future generations.

Media:[email protected] The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) is a non-partisan think-tank dedicated to re-inventing Atlanticism for a more secure future. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. and led by seasoned transatlanticists and emerging leaders from both sides of the Atlantic, CEPA brings an innovative approach to the foreign policy arena. Our cutting-edge analysis and timely debates galvanize communities of influence while investing in the next generation of leaders to understand and address present and future challenges to transatlantic values and principles.

The European Union will reconsider imposing Network Fees on mostly American platforms. It's an ill-advised approach.Fion...
10/23/2026

The European Union will reconsider imposing Network Fees on mostly American platforms. It's an ill-advised approach.

Fiona Alexander makes clear imposing Network Fees in Europe threatens to raise tension at the United Nations and ITU and poison already strained transatlantic relations. If a cost-sharing model is imposed, she warns, it would open the door for authoritarians to double down on their efforts to control — and stifle — the web.

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How can the transatlantic alliance build a future-capable, allied defense force? The answer will depend on producing cri...
10/23/2026

How can the transatlantic alliance build a future-capable, allied defense force?

The answer will depend on producing critical capabilities at scale, bringing emerging defense technologies into allied forces, and building a defense industrial base that works across the Atlantic. CEPA and Brzezinski Global Strategies took up those questions with Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Jaromír Zůna, whose country’s defense industry has a growing role to play in strengthening the alliance.

Thank you to Minister Zůna, our colleagues at Brzezinski Global Strategies, and our guests for joining us.

At Yalta in 1945, the great powers carved postwar Europe into spheres of influence. Millions of people in Central and Ea...
10/23/2026

At Yalta in 1945, the great powers carved postwar Europe into spheres of influence. Millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe were consigned to half a century of Russian domination.

Chiseling the world into zones is never just about dividing territory. It means carving up populations, and history has shown over and over that people want to live in free societies, not dictatorships. Spheres of influence deny smaller nations a say in deals made about them, without them, and as the Warsaw Pact states showed, many refuse to consent.

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10/23/2026

We’re delighted to welcome Owen Bennett as a Fellow with CEPA’s Tech Policy Program.

Owen is an independent advisor on European and global digital policy, with deep expertise in the regulation of harmful online content. He served as Head of International Online Safety at Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, where he built the team behind its first global online safety strategy. Earlier, as Senior Policy Manager at Mozilla, he helped shape the EU’s Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, and AI Act, as well as the UK’s Online Safety Act.

We look forward to Owen’s contributions to CEPA’s work on technology policy.

A Ukrainian brigade says it has used a heavy bomber drone to evacuate a wounded soldier for the first time. Mines and en...
10/23/2026

A Ukrainian brigade says it has used a heavy bomber drone to evacuate a wounded soldier for the first time. Mines and enemy drones had made every other route impossible.

David Kirichenko finds that drones have cost Ukraine’s medics the golden hour, the window in which fast treatment saves lives. Wounded soldiers can be stranded on the front line for weeks or even months, raising the risk of amputation and antibiotic-resistant infection. Aerial evacuation could help, but it will not replace ground robots, which can hide in a tree line in a way a drone in open sky cannot.

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10/23/2026

When AI moves faster than any human can, who makes the final decision?

For Lt. Gen. Luca Goretti, chairman of the Leonardo US Corporation and former Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force, the answer has to remain a person. AI is reducing the time leaders have to weigh their options, especially in safety and security systems. Treating it as the ultimate goal, and letting it act on its own, would be a mistake. The human brain, he warns, must keep the last-ditch call.

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10/22/2026

Much of the security of the United States and its allies rests on encryption. Quantum computing could break through it.

At the 2026 CEPA Tech & Security Conference, Ambassador Julianne Smith, former US Ambassador to NATO, named quantum as the technology transition that stands out most beyond the realm of AI. It may still feel a little ways away, she notes, but it will be among the most challenging shifts allies face in the years ahead.

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Russia’s strikes are forcing Ukraine to rethink how it keeps the lights on. The answer depends as much on administrators...
10/22/2026

Russia’s strikes are forcing Ukraine to rethink how it keeps the lights on. The answer depends as much on administrators as on engineers.

Kateryna Odarchenko makes clear that decentralization increases the importance of local government rather than reducing it. Thousands of small projects protecting individual hospitals, schools, and public buildings need coordination, procurement, and maintenance. This winter will test not only Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, she warns, but its administrative capacity.

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In March, a Russian tanker delivered about 100,000 metric tons of crude oil to Cuba. A second shipment turned back in Ma...
10/22/2026

In March, a Russian tanker delivered about 100,000 metric tons of crude oil to Cuba. A second shipment turned back in May.

Cesar E. Santos finds that Moscow has offered Havana loud support but limited and irregular material help, wary of turning Cuba into another source of direct confrontation with Washington. That calculation could change. As US-Russian relations warm, including an easing of US restrictions on Russian diesel, new oil shipments could give the Cuban regime a lifeline and delay a political transition.

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Russia’s shadow war is not one country’s problem, and it will not be solved by one country’s response.Attacks on infrast...
10/22/2026

Russia’s shadow war is not one country’s problem, and it will not be solved by one country’s response.

Attacks on infrastructure, information, and democratic institutions now stretch from the Baltic to the Black Sea. On the main stage at the Forum 2000 conference in Prague, CEPA Vice President Christopher Walker, former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, and Roderich Kiesewetter of the German Bundestag examined why the transatlantic partnership remains essential to confronting it. The session, co-organized by CEPA and Forum 2000 and moderated by MEP Alexandr Vondra, looked at the price both sides would pay for drifting apart.

Learn more about CEPA’s Global Shadow War Initiative at the link below.

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