More allegations as more star players are sidelines for abuse. And 3d takes on a new challenge, cars, is it the wave of the future . We begin with new developments on the u. S. Plan to defeat i. S. I. L. Late this afternoon, the house voted to authorize training and arming for Syrian Rebels. Thats a key component of the white house strategy. And today the president and secretary of state promised once again not to send u. S. Combat troops to iraq. We begin our coverage now with Mike Viqueria at the white house. Mike. Rand, goo randall good evg to you. It was a night of skepticism by members of congress. But the legislative portion of what the president wanted to do cleared a large hurled. Allowed for the possibility that there may be Ground Troops snerlted into the fight inserted into the fight against i. S. I. L. Betd rock promise he made to the bedrock promise he pead made to the troops. Going over war plans, before a cheering crowd, repeat the plans he made time and time again since
So now id like to turn over the floor to the people that are going to make that happen today, ask the tough questions, give us some answers. And id like to thank you everyone today for joining us today and hand over to tom bright from abrookings who is going to chair the panel on the economy and europes future. So, thank you. And thank you, again, everybody for joining us. Thank you. Im a fellow here with the International Order and strategy at brookings. And im particularly delighted to be able to chair the first panel. Id like to thank fionna and Jeremy Shapiro for asking me to do it. And its a particular privilege to do it at a conference in honor of clara who i knew for the past two years here, was really a wonderful colleague. And shes sorely missed. And i know several people here knew her and on the panel. I think she would be very interested in the topic today. Not just because of the events in ukraine, but also because she has such a strong passion for European Union Foreign Po
[gunshots] [whispering] [intrumental of bring him home miserables] bring himal of miserables]es never again. Even before the war is over, the delegates from 50 nations meet in San Francisco to lay the framework of addressing all conflicts in the future. Of idea of european unity fallout of the rejection of war. Held in theress is hague. It is the beginning of a long and difficult progress to begin the year to bring the european nations together. A new europe, based on the values of democracy, begins to take shape. Europe will not be made all at once or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements. It will reflect solidarity. 1957 the treaty of rome in to joy, instrumental] [applause] 70 years later, yesterdays enemies are together once again, handinhand for the remembrance through the ceremony. [applause] as they join hands here before you, let there be peace their gesture of peace is a gesture for the future. They invite us to echo it where the spirit of
Second, we would support ukraine to build support for ukraine in the International Community, and reassure our allies and partners, and let me spend a few minutes on those. With regards to russia, the goals were simple and straightforward. We needed to impose costs for the actions russia had taken. We saw to deter russia from taking further irresponsible actions, and we hoped to shape the decision space that Vladimir Putin and the russian government would take going forward. You all know the litany of things that happened in the immediate weeks following the incursion into crimea. There was the suspension from the g8, the efforts in the United Nations to isolate russia politically, and we saw that with the very significant vote withe security council, china even abstaining and not siding with russia, and then with the general assembly, where russia found itself with another 10 countries, none of whom i think would be partners of first choice for us in this room. We rejected the referen
And so id like to turn to randy henning, a professor of economic governance and really try to put this question to you. That if if we we are where we are in economic terms. There are these solutions out there that many people believe would have sort of a big bang effect of really being Game Changers and kickstarting growth. But theyre exceptionally unlikely because of german opposition and also because of rising sort of populism and the difficulty in getting it through in terms of treaty change. So what does that mean for the next sort of decade in european economics . I mean, if we cant do what simon sort of outlined and theres unlikely to be a collapse of the Currency Union for all of the reasons that, you know, people are afraid of what the alternative would be, what is the middle sort of muddling through option . How bad is it . Is it not quite as bad as we think . And what can they do within the constraints they have . Well, thank you, tom. Im pleased to be in part of this panel a