December has been a busy month in Europe. NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels on Dec. 6 and 7. The agenda: Ukraine and Afghanistan. The S-word (Syria) barely got a look-in.

In Hamburg, more than 50 foreign ministers from the members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) gathered on Dec. 8 and 9 for their annual get-together. The agenda: mostly Ukraine and Syria.

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