The yearly meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members wrapped up this week (June 14) in Brussels, capping off a busy week of multilateral events that also included the G7 summit in Cornwall, southwest England.

It’s an important time for both the G7 and NATO, two institutions with a common mission and considerable overlap in their membership. They face major challenges, including stabilizing and improving relations with China and Russia, achieving progress on climate change, ensuring that another pandemic doesn’t ever happen, and stimulating the global economic recovery from Covid-19. They also had to agree on an agenda to carry NATO through the next 10 years.