Tag: trans-atlantic

"There is a whole shopping list of projects" on which the EU and the United States need to work together, French Economy and Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said yesterday (18 June), pouring cold water on suggestions that the two giants do not share common ground on major economic policy issues.

The ongoing financial turmoil and cooperation on climate change will shape relations between the EU and the US after the 4 November presidential elections, argues Tom Spencer, the executive director of the European Centre for Public Affairs, in an interview with EurActiv.

G8 countries meeting in Hokkaido, Japan on 7-9 July should strive to bridge the gap that exists between them on proposals to tackle climate change, argues Nigel Purvis of Climate Advisers in a June 2008 policy paper for the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

A new chapter offered by the election of President Sarkozy in France and the elevation of Gordon Brown to UK prime minister provides a chance of better transatlantic relations over Iran and energy security, claims Simon Henderson – director of the Gulf and Energy Policy Programme at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy – in a June essay for the Transatlantic Institute.

The Commission has threatened five EU governments with legal action if they fail to lift national bans on a range of biotech crops authorised by the EU's own Food Safety Authority.

The EU will open a liaison office in Baghdad to co-ordinate the training of Iraqi judges, prosecutors and prison guards.