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1 NOMINATIONS WEDNESDAY MAY 4 2022 U S SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE ON EUROPEAN AFFAIRS Washington DC The committee met pursuant to notice at 2 04 p m in Room SD 419 Dirksen Senate...HAMPSHIRE Senator SHAHEEN This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee s Subcommittee on European Affairs will come to order and I...

bad guys are in these religious disputes and territorial dis putes The French have been there The Europeans have been there Now we are there The complicated warfare the complicated clan warfare of Soma lia...number of areas and one is in the digital space We have seen what has happened not just with our European al lies who have been tempted to...

attempts to establish footholds in its economy Russian malign influence campaigns to divide the European Union and massive migration inflows Should you be confirmed as Ambassador I hope your experience in...happens in Greece matters not just for Greece but for the Eastern Mediterranean region NATO the European Union and the United States...

coalition that has stood up and imposed sweeping costs on the Putin regime To date we along with the European allies and partners and others have levied serious costs that are already having a dev VerDate Mar...backfill any planes that are provided to Ukraine Is there a willingness on the part of other of our European allies to help support this ef...

or participated in in Europe this year alone the more than 11 billion we have put forward for the European Deterrence Ini tiative and the defensive weapons we have helped make available to Ukraine and Georgia...attempted to do it All those of us that meet with the Europeans from time to time underscore it and that is the funding or the lack thereof...

which is a specialized technical agency of the African Union for five years and I was there as the second man from the U S Government to the African Union which they deeply appreciate that I think let me start...and thanks to that leadership the con tinent and I can speak reflect on the mood within the African Union is thanks to the support from...

goes on and on the Skripal attack in broad day light using the novichok nerve agent When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan that effectively de railed the SALT II treaty If Putin had acted 3 years earlier...their intention to potentially use those weapons in a first strike scenario escalate to win in a European environment It is not a theoretical...

relationship with Es tonia Also this October Estonia will host the Three Seas Initiative which is a Central European led effort to accelerate cross border commerce through important infrastructure projects in transpor...States refused to recognize the forced annexation of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania into the Soviet Union Estonia showed great...

are urging other like minded gov ernments to emulate Adoption of GLOMAG like legislation by the European Union the UK and Australia are encouraging steps Over the course of this hearing I hope to discuss...off his game by proactively releas ing the products of intelligence so that it was clear to our European partners and allies that we were well...

will hear from the Honorable Steven Dowd who has been nominated to serve as the U S director of the European Bank for Reconstruction in Development Mr Dowd served as the U S executive director of the African...and please proceed STATEMENT OF HON J STEVEN DOWD OF FLORIDA TO BE UNITED STATES DIRECTOR OF THE EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND...