What Europe Should Know about the New US AI Policy Analysis President Biden issued an Executive Order on artificial intelligence that, while different in form and enforcement authority from the EU’s AI Act, targets many of the current risks of the technology. With policies in effect soon, the EU and US have the chance to work together. By Drew Mitnick
A US-Germany-Poland Leadership Coalition for Ukraine Report European security is dependent on a free and stable Ukraine. However, the 2024 US election could result in a fundamentally different policy approach to aid for Ukraine in Washington. To guarantee policy continuity, the United States should form a trilateral leadership coalition with Germany and Poland. Recent changes in Polish politics will help. Together, the three countries must devise a long-term strategy on Ukraine based on an agreed vision of European security and continued assistance to Ukraine. By Marta Prochwicz-Jazowska
The social dimension of the coronavirus crisis in the USA Analysis The coronavirus crisis is leading to massive social distortions in the US. It is increasing the existing structural inequalities and discriminations in the US economy and society. By Bastian Hermisson
Americans are unprepared for Russian interference in 2020 Opinia American society has never been more polarized than today. This polarization has created information bubbles – acting as almost alternate realities. And in this environment, it is easy to manipulate opinions and further discredit facts or distort the truth. By Adam L. Reichardt
Donald Trump - The Lonesome Diplomat Transatlantic Media Fellowship Research shows that Americans are more willing to be involved in world affairs than they have been for a very long time. Americans are becoming aware that a leading role of the US in the world is important to their security and to their prosperity and increasingly, for their freedom. By Adam L. Reichardt
A Slippery Slope: The USA after the Presidential elections Ralf Fücks visited the United States in the week after the elections for talks and events in New York and Washington DC. Reflections and highlights from a nation in shock. By Ralf Fücks
Realities of shale gas extraction in the USA Shale gas boom in the USA is widely discussed in Poland. Therefore, the Heinrich Böll Foundation organised a study tour for Polish activists, journalists and experts to USA in order to show them the results of the effects of natural gas exploration on local communities along the Marcellus Shale. One of the participants, Tomasz Ulanowski wrote an article about environmental, social, economic and political aspects of drilling in Pennsylvania. By Tomasz Ulanowski