Garcevic Publishes OpEd in Just Security on Transatlantic Relations
Ambassador Vesko Garcevic, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent Op-Ed on the recent G20 meeting and the state of relations between the United States and European Union.
Amb. Garcevic’s Op-Ed, entitled “Trumping Transatlantic Relations, EU Struggles to Get Its House in Order,” was published in Just Security on July 2, 2019.
From the text of the article:
The recent EU parliamentary elections didn’t provide clear guidance, in any case. If the results didn’t make things worse, they didn’t make them better either. On the plus side, predictions of a right-wing, Eurosceptic takeover of the European Parliament were greatly exaggerated. But the results confirmed the deep divisions in the EU over its future and over the role of member states, as it looks toward potential reforms of its structure and institutions.
The political old guard that has commanded the EU Parliament for decades are embodied in the two large but shrinking voting blocs: the center-right European People’s Parties (EPP), which includes Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and the center-left Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats (S&D), made up largely of Social Democratic parties across Europe. But those traditional behemoths no longer fully control decision-making.
During his diplomatic career, Amb. Vesko Garcevic dealt with issues pertinent to European security and NATO for almost 14 years. In 2004, he was posted in Vienna to serve as Ambassador to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He had been a Montenegro’s Ambassador to NATO from 2010 until 2014 and served as a Montenegro’s National Coordinator for NATO from 2015 until he joined the faculty at the Pardee School.