U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said he will not be the next NATO secretary-general.
“It’s not going to happen,” Wallace told The Economist in an interview published Wednesday night. The British defense chief has pitched himself for the NATO gig in recent months, with the U.K. at the forefront of providing Western support to Ukraine as it fights to fend off Russia’s full-scale invasion.
But Wallace told the magazine that the U.S. under President Joe Biden wanted current chief Jens Stoltenberg, a Norwegian who has been in post since 2014, to stay on in the role — deferring the decision on a successor until next year. Stoltenberg’s term has repeatedly been extended as the West coordinated its assistance to Ukraine in the wake of the Kremlin’s assault.
Some leaders of EU countries also have little appetite to hand the plum job to a Brit after Brexit, as POLITICO has previously reported.
“Maybe they want a prime minister,” Wallace said. Danish PM Mette Frederiksen — who met Biden in Washington earlier this month — has been mentioned regularly in diplomatic circles as a top candidate to succeed Stoltenberg.
In the interview, Wallace also conceded that French President Emmanuel Macron might be talking sense regarding European strategic autonomy.
“The French have a point in lots of areas,” he said. “The answer to everything is not America first, when it comes to procurement.”
Whoever eventually takes over from Stoltenberg at NATO will have a tough task, Wallace added. That person “is going to have to please both Macron and Biden.”
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<img src="https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-loaded/v1/wL4rdHWxiIaAFNcj7O0bK3n9ye8UNv30" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="States call on justices to leave restored teacher training funds in place" title="States call on justices to leave restored teacher training funds in place"> <img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/empty-courtroom-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="States call on justices to leave restored teacher training funds in place" title="States call on justices to leave restored teacher training funds in place" style="float:right;" decoding="async" srcset="https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/empty-courtroom-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/empty-courtroom-570x570.jpeg 570w, https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/empty-courtroom-500x500.jpeg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /><p><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F03%2Fstates-call-on-justices-to-leave-restored-teacher-training-funds-in-place%2F&linkname=States%20call%20on%20justices%20to%20leave%20restored%20teacher%20training%20funds%20in%20place" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F03%2Fstates-call-on-justices-to-leave-restored-teacher-training-funds-in-place%2F&linkname=States%20call%20on%20justices%20to%20leave%20restored%20teacher%20training%20funds%20in%20place" title="LinkedIn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F03%2Fstates-call-on-justices-to-leave-restored-teacher-training-funds-in-place%2F&linkname=States%20call%20on%20justices%20to%20leave%20restored%20teacher%20training%20funds%20in%20place" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_email" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F03%2Fstates-call-on-justices-to-leave-restored-teacher-training-funds-in-place%2F&linkname=States%20call%20on%20justices%20to%20leave%20restored%20teacher%20training%20funds%20in%20place" title="Email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_printfriendly" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/printfriendly?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F03%2Fstates-call-on-justices-to-leave-restored-teacher-training-funds-in-place%2F&linkname=States%20call%20on%20justices%20to%20leave%20restored%20teacher%20training%20funds%20in%20place" title="PrintFriendly" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_no_icon addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotusblog.com%2F2025%2F03%2Fstates-call-on-justices-to-leave-restored-teacher-training-funds-in-place%2F&title=States%20call%20on%20justices%20to%20leave%20restored%20teacher%20training%20funds%20in%20place" data-a2a-url="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/03/states-call-on-justices-to-leave-restored-teacher-training-funds-in-place/" data-a2a-title="States call on justices to leave restored teacher training funds in place">Share</a></p><p>Eight states, led by California, on Friday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts that requires the Department of Education to restore more than $65 million in grants, intended to address teacher shortages, that it ended in February because the funded programs included diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.</p>
<p>In a <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A910/354296/20250328154415498_USDOE%20v.%20California%20-%20Opposition%20to%20Application.pdf">40-page filing</a>, the states told the justices that there was no reason for them to intervene. “Because the district court acted responsibly — entering a narrow and time-limited restraining order to preserve the status quo while moving rapidly to adjudicate” the state’s request for a preliminary injunction, the government cannot appeal the district court’s order, the states argue, and the government’s appeal will in any event be moot (that is, no longer a live controversy) by early April.<span id="more-319374"></span></p>
<p>At issue in the case are two grant programs for teacher recruitment, training, and professional development. The Department of Education canceled nearly all of the grants under the program – 104 out of 109 – in early February, after reviews found “objectionable” material relating to DEI in them.</p>
<p>The states – California, along with Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York, and Wisconsin – challenged the termination of the grants in federal court in Massachusetts. They contended that universities and nonprofits in their states had received grants through the programs, and that the cancellation of the grants had violated the federal law governing administrative agencies.</p>
<p>U.S. District Judge Myong Joun issued a temporary order on March 10 instructing the department to restore the grants that it had cancelled in the eight states bringing the lawsuit, and he prohibited the department from carrying out other terminations in those states.</p>
<p>A federal appeals court in Boston rejected the department’s request to pause Joun’s order while it appealed, prompting Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris to go to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.</p>
<p>In their filing on Friday, the states push back against the federal government’s suggestion that if Joun’s order is not paused, it will create an incentive for groups to quickly draw down the funds, and the government will not be able to recover them even if the order is later reversed. “But the order has been in place for 18 days,” the state observed, “and ‘the Department has not pointed to any evidence of any attempt at any such withdrawal by any recipient’ — ‘or rebutted the contention that it could stop such an attempted withdrawal’ or recover the funds.”</p>
<p>The states also suggest that, because the stakes in this case are relatively low, the federal government’s “real concern” is with the other cases around the country “where courts are grappling with a raft of legal disputes arising out of recent actions by the Executive Branch. Those concerns,” the states concluded, “are properly litigated in the context of those other cases.”</p>
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