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NATO officials and youngsters debating the alliance's future in 2020 (Photo: EUobserver)

NATO summit kicks off amid protests

by Valentina Pop, STRASBOURG,

European, US and Canadian leaders were set to meet on Friday for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg. Meanwhile, police have already arrested some one hundred protesters after violent clashes, highlighting the identity and image problems of the military alliance.

If it wasn't for the delays to the city's high-tech tram system, the clashes between anti-NATO protesters and riot police in a southern suburb of the city would have passed completely ...

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NATO officials and youngsters debating the alliance's future in 2020 (Photo: EUobserver)

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