Commentary
Security
America’s New Cold War: Europe Faces a Stark Choice – COMMENTARY
15 April 2025
While the NATO Summit in Vilnius was short of an official invitation for Ukraine to join the Alliance, it did bring some positive developments. Most notable is a new institutional and procedural framework that is being debated and developed right now.
One of the outputs of the Vilnius NATO Summit was the decision to launch a new institutional platform, the NATO–Ukraine Council (NUC), to substitute the previously active NATO–Ukraine Commission, launched in 1997.
In the run-up to the Summit, allies already proposed some modalities for the functioning of this new body, with a broad framework for its design and functions. So far, two meetings of the Council have been held in Vilnius and Brussels.