The somewhat easier speech to give. It was plain for all to see that our union was not in a good state. Europe was better and worst by the very foundation. We only had two choices either come together around a positive european agenda, or each retreat into our own corners. Faced with this choice, i argued for unity. I proposed a positive agenda to help create, as i said last year, a europe that protects, a europe that empowers, a europe that defends. Over the past 12 months, European Parliament has helped bring this agenda to life. We continue to make progress with each passing day. Just last night you worked to find an agreement on instrument and doubling our European Investment capacity and you succeeded. Thank you for that. I also want to thank the 27 leaders of our Member States. This after my speech last year, they welcome my agenda at their summit. In doing so, they chose unity, they chose to rally around our common good. Together, we showed that you can deliver for citizens when
[inaudible conversations] morning everybody. Let me start, if i can with a very personal note, and that is i have known her for a little more than a quartercentury which means we got together in what was another millennium and it sure feels like another millennium. She was an extraordinary friend and colleague and i, along with my colleagues here at brookings and form policy are so glad that once again she will be colleagu colleague. I think the timing of this part of the program fits very well with the panel that we have just heard from. Perhaps victoria, you were there for close to half of it and you heard a number of observations about whats going on in europe and in the eu. My sense is that there was a feeling that may be the troubles of the eu are bottoming out and the eu is getting its act together again with of course the leadership of two countries in particular and that is germany and france. How did you react to the conversation we just heard. I am so delighted to be at brook
This week on q a, a professor and former federal prosecutor randall allies and who writes a blog called sidebars talks about the federal Corruption Case against u. S. Senator bob menendez new jersey. Eliasson, before i ask us about this case, give some background about how you got into the business of the law and the relationship between the federal prosecutor and somebody in politics . i came to washington for my first job at a private law firm. I worked there as a federal prosecutor for 12 years. Both of the time in that office i was in what they call the public corruption and government fraud section. I was focusing on cases involving public corruption and fraud against the government, both medical both federal and local officials. By the time i left, i was serving as the chief of that section. I was supervising the attorneys focusing on those cases. I left the office in 2000 want to help test so i could start teaching and writing on a parttime basis. Teaching whitecollar criminal l
Following their departure from the european union. This is 45 minutes. Good morning everybody, we are delighted to have you here. I wonderful way to start a monday. We are lucky to have ambassador today. Iser with us because some any people went to be here and everybody has questions, we will do that with cards. We were to make sure we dont get too many questions. When you have a card or question filled out, we have runners that will come and pick it up for you. We will make sure we get the best of the questions onto the table. I am responsible for everybody here. If something happens, i will ask you to follow my instructions. I will first take care of the ambassador, but i will come back for you, i promise. [laughter] we will follow the exit doors, they go down the street, take two lefthand turns, and go across to the national geographic. I will order ice cream and we will celebrate our survival. Dont worry about it, but follow my instructions if i have to ask you to do something. Int
Korean alliance. The center for stratic and International Studies hosted this hour and 15 minute event. Well, welcome back from your break. Im michael green. Im the Senior Vice President for asia and japan chair here at sic and a professor at georgetown and like victor cha, a veteran of the long forgotten bush administration. This panel is going to look at our alliance in the context of northeast asia. The previous panels touched on bilateral defense issues, on ways to deal with the rising threat from north korea. Those issues will come back in this panel, but what i hope we can do for the next hour and 15 minutes is provide the larger geopolitical context within which were now working. The north Korean Nuclear challenge cannot be divorced from the larger geopolitical memory and vision for the future of northeast asia. And we are confounded, we are obstructed in our effort to find a diplomatic solution by the fact that there are different ideas in North East Asia about what the regions