Europe

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC2MAD9Q8ACH

What did the Trump-Erdoğan meeting accomplish?

Amanda Sloat and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, November 14, 2019

French flags are seen on the desks of Members of the Rassemblement National (RN) far-right party ahead of a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler - RC134C0960B0

Highlights: Lessons from The Democracy Playbook on how to prevent and reverse democratic backsliding

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Europe 1989-2019: Lessons learned 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Allseas' deep sea pipe laying ship Solitaire lays pipes for Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea September 13, 2019. Picture taken September 13, 2019. REUTERS/Stine Jacobsen - RC19E7D92D80

Congress, Nord Stream II, and Ukraine

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

A person passes by the installation 'Lichtgrenze' (Border of Light) in front of a painting depicting former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker (R) along the East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin November 7, 2014. A part of the inner city of Berlin is being temporarily divided from November 7 to 9, with a light installation featuring 8000 luminous white balloons, following the 9.5-mile (15.3 kmilometre) path the Berlin Wall once occupied, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY - Tags: ANNIVERSARY ENTERTAINMENT CITYSCAPE TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - LR1EAB71FACFQ

Bring the spirit of 1989 back to save European democracy today

Alina Polyakova, Torrey Taussig, and Norman Eisen

Saturday, November 9, 2019

Berlin Wall in Los Angeles, California

Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Fred Dews

Friday, November 8, 2019

The European Union and India: Strategic partners on multilateralism and global governance

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM IST

People climb the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate after the opening of the East German border November 9, 1989. REUTERS/Herbert Knosowski - RP1DRILJKDAA

Brookings experts’ reading list on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

‘The Democracy Playbook’: A strategic plan to fight democratic backsliding

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM EST

A Bulgarian flag blows in the breeze, as protesters block the main road between Sofia and the Greek border near Doupnitsa, 60 km south of the capital January 30. The angry citizens of Doupnitsa turned out in shifts in freezing cold to blockade road and rail routes to Greece for a second day, in protest against Bulgaria's Socialist rulers.BULGARIA BLOCKADE - RP1DRIDBQHAA

Beyond the Berlin Wall: The forgotten collapse of Bulgaria’s ‘wall’

Tuesday, November 5, 2019