WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on July 2, 2025: * * * Trade Liberalizing Efforts in Other Countries Contradict U.S. Policies By William Alan Reinsch and Safae Irghis An issue currently being debated among economists and trade experts is whether the post-Bretton Woods rules-based international trading system has run its useful life and needs to be replaced with something else. This has been a theme in both the Biden and more PR

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * DOD 'Capability Review' to Analyze Where Military Aid Goes, Ensure America Is First * Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, the U.S. has provided Ukraine with nearly $66 billion in security assistance. Much of that assistance involved American military hardware and munitions pulled from U.S. inventory as part of presidential drawdown authority. Now, some assistance provided to Ukraine  more PR

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 27 -- The European Commission issued the following statement by President Ursula von der Leyen at a joint news conference with European Council President Antonio Costa and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: * * * Let me start, dear Donald, with a word on the Polish Presidency as it draws to a close. Your Presidency was challenging, but you delivered. You closed 37 major legislative files and reached negotiating mandates on another 18. Those are impressive figures. You a more PR