Tag: transatlantic

"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.

Joint action from the EU and US to address the financial crisis "must inevitably precede global cooperation," argues Tom Spencer, the executive director of the European Centre for Public Affairs, in an interview with EurActiv.

Turkey's relations with the EU have become a pivotal issue in the evolving EU-NATO relationship but security concerns still need to be ironed out, says Sinan Ülgen in an April discussion paper for the Istanbul-based Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM).

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 surprising win of both Congressional houses by the Democrats in the US mid-term elections has raised European hopes for better transatlantic co-operation but some commentators are less optimistic. EurActiv presents an overview of European reactions.

Two thirds of Europeans now see the threat of terror as "extremely important". A growing number of both Europeans and Americans fear Islamic fundamentalism, according to the new Transatlantic Trends survey. 

An EU-US science and technology co-operation agreement has been in place since 1998. An impact assessment of the agreement reveals, however, a significant lack of awareness of the agreement, especially among within European industry, research institutions and governments.