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Xavier Ragot and Hans-Helmut Kotz offer ways out of the crisis.
David Calleo places the crisis in the context of Europe's historical debates about the nature of its experiment with integration.
The World Bank's John-Gabriel Goddard looks at what the crisis means for Europe's innovation and competitiveness.
CTR Distinguished Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton explains how the EU may need to change its treaties here.
Euro Crisis: All Politics Are Local -- And Why Americans Should Care. CTR Director Daniel Hamilton comments here for the San Francisco Chronicle and here for NPR's Marketplace here.
The European Debt Crisis: Political Economy Back with a Vengeance. CTR Distinguished Fellow Gordon Bajnai comments for CNBC here.
The Eurozone Crisis is a Crisis of European Politics. CTR's John Bruton explains here, in a speech for the Google Leaders Forum.
Will the EU need to change its treaties to deal with the euro crisis? CTR Distinguished Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton tackles the issue here.
Euro Crisis: All Politics are Local and Why Americans Should Care: CTR Director comments here for the San Francisco Chronicle
European Debt Crisis: Political Economy Back with a Vengeance. CTR Distinguished Fellow Gordon Bajnai comments for CNBC here.
- Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review of the European Union in 2010 published
The Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) Annual Review of the European Union in 2010 which is co-edited by Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow, Tim Haughton, was published by Wiley Blackwell in September. The book contains a State of the Union address by the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, the Annual Review lecture by distinguished scholar Loukas Tsoukalis, and specially commissioned articles by David Marsh on the euro and William Paterson on Germany and the EU. Visit Wiley-Blackwell for more information. - The Eurozone Crisis is a Crisis of European Politics
CTR's John Bruton explains here, in a speech for the Google Leaders Forum. - Democracy, Innovation and Development
Prof. Elias G. Carayannis, George Washington University and Dr. David Campbell, University of Klagenfurt, Austria/Academic Director, The Global Democracy Ranking, spoke at CTR on June 2. Click here for Prof. Carayannis' presentation and here for Prof. Campell's presentation. CTR's Cornerstone Project - US-EU Economic Relations
View papers from CTR's Cornerstone Project 2011 conference "Knocking Down Transatlantic Economic Barriers" and presentations from the conference jointly-hosted with the Cournot Centre, "The Feasibility of European Monetary and Fiscal Policies".- Inside European Politics: Perspectives for the Eurozone
Andreas Schieder, State Secretary of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance, spoke at CTR on May 4. View his presentation here. - Is the Euro Saved for Good?
European Commissioner Olli Rehn spoke on this subject at Brookings, with comment by CTR Director Dan Hamilton. Read his speech and slide presentation. - U.S. and Europe: Promoting Exports Together?
To what extent do the U.S. and Europe share interests in promoting trade and investment, and where do they compete? Mark Reichwein, Marcel Beukeboom, and Stephen Raes compare and contrast here. - Transatlantic Exchanges are merging – what does it mean?
CFR’s Benn Steil explains here. - US-EU Economic Issues Before the Congress
A new CRS report outlines the challenges and opportunities. - Then and Now: U.S. Foreign Economic Policy
CTR Director Dan Hamilton joined U.S. Undersecretary of State Robert Hormats and other scholars to discuss the release of the State Department Historian’s new volume on U.S. Foreign Economic Policy 1973-1976, with references to today’s debates. Click here for audio and transcripts. - Can Europe Win the Future?
CTR Executive Director Dan Hamilton sets out where the EU is competitive and where it is complacent in the European Voice. - Europe is falling short of talent
CTR Director Dan Hamilton explains why the services sector is the biggest untapped source of jobs and economic growth for Europost. - An Irish Perspective on the EU's Future
John Bruton, former Irish Prime Minister and CTR Distinguished Fellow, argues here that EU leaders must deal with the EU's banking crisis before they will be able to tackle issues of competitiveness. - Trade Judges See Flaw in China Policies
CTR's Dan Hamilton is quoted in the Wall Street Journal here. - Obama, Sarkozy and the Role of the Dollar
CTR Executive Director discusses France’s G20 Presidency plans and his meeting with President Obama with Liberation here (in French). - Currency Wars
CTR Executive Director Dan Hamilton discusses the challenges, with the French newspaper Libération (in French) here. - Europe, the Systemic Consequences of the Slowly Abating Crisis and the Need to Reformulate the Case for Capitalism
Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, spoke at CTR on Wednesday September 22. Click here for his written remarks or here for the event audio. - Fixing the Euro While Fixing the EU’s Democratic Deficits
CTR Senior Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton proposes some innovations here. - Europe Needs A New Model
CTR Senior Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton discusses the impact of the Greek crisis here and Europe's need for a new development model here. - China's Europe crisis
Bruce Stokes traces the impact of Europe's financial crisis on China and the U.S. here in the National Journal. - Liquidity and Sovereignty
The Eurozone needs a lender of last resort, argues Heribert Dieter here. - Strategic Trade Alliances?
Charles Ries argues that the time is now for new initiatives here. Read his CTR article on transatlantic trade here. - Global Economic Governance: Beyond Management by the United States and the European Union?
The fall 2009 issue of Business and Politics, published by Berkeley Electronic Press, features papers produced for the annual Transatlantic Economic Dialogue, co-sponsored by CTR and the BMW Foundation. - US-EU: Serious about Doha?
CTR hosted EU Trade Commissioner Ashton and Swedish Trade Minister Bjoerling on the prospects. - 20 Years of Economic Transition in Central Europe
Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI's Krzysztof Bledowski discusses here. - Collateral Damage
What's the impact of the financial crisis on food, energy, trade and climate? Find out here. - EU Summit Jobs Plan: Disappointing
Read a summary here. - Why Europe is divided over China?
find out here. - After the G20: Assessing the Central European Economic Crisis
Interview with Leszek Balcerowicz here. - Europe, the U.S. and the Financial Crisis
As the U.S. grapples with the crisis, the EU released its own High Level report on the challenges at hand. Read it here. European members of the G-20 offered their view of the way forward here. - Managing the Financial Crisis - Is Europe Getting It Right?
Heribert Dieter tells us here. - Europe's Gone Missing
At the G-20 Summit, there will be European speakers but no European voice, notes Timothy Garton Ash here. - The World Financial Summits: 1944 or 1933?
For the risks and opportunities, see comments by SWP's Heribert Dieter and Richard Higott here. Globalization and Europe
Dan Hamilton and Joe Quinlan's new book is reviewed in the Fall 2008 issue of European Affairs here and in www.zeit.de (in German) here.- Europe, the U.S. and the Financial Crisis
- The End of the American Model? The financial crisis marks a turning point in history, argues SWP’s Heribert Dieter here.
- Bold Britannia: CTR Director Dan Hamilton argues that the U.S. should follow Britain’s lead here.
- Capitalism’s New Model: Sweden: The Swedes offer some useful experience, argues Andrew Szvirzdin here. - Unilateral Delusions
CTR Fellow Joseph Quinlan comments here. - Financial Crisis: Three Ways Out for Europe
Read former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's views here. - Why Germany and America Own Each Other
Despite the rise of other economic players, Germany and the U.S. are still tied closely together, notes CTR Director Dan Hamilton here (in German). - Europe: Magnet for the Unskilled
CTR's new book Globalization and Europe is featured in an article by the German weekly Die Zeit on Europe's migration problems (in German) here. - "On a Winning Streak"
Europe has gained far more that it has lost from globalization argue CTR's Dan Hamilton and Joe Quinlan here in the May 2008 E-Sharp magazine. The Ring of Prosperity Surrounding Europe's Core
Despite Europe's yearning to build a 21st century moat to keep its neighbours at bay, it's the soaring global demand for commodities of those neighbors that has emerged as a key source of growth for the core of Europe. CTR Non-Resident Fellow Joseph Quinlan comments in the Financial Times here on the economic growth of Europe's periphery.New CTR Book! Globalization and Europe: Prospering in the New Whirled Order
Globalization has benefited Europe and could boost annual household income by a further €5,000 per family. Moreover, Europeanization is perhaps more important than globalization for many European countries --most offshored jobs by European companies go to other European countries, not to Asia, and EU companies and workers are benefiting from a “ring of prosperity” on their own borders – the equivalent of China in their own backyard. Who’s winning? Who’s losing? CTR Director Dan Hamilton and CTR Fellow Joseph Quinlan map the answers in this new book.
"The work of Daniel Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan on globalization and transatlantic relations is already compulsory reading for many entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists and academics," said José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission on February 28, 2008 when he joined Hamilton and Quinlan to release the book in Brussels. Read President Barroso’s comments here and coverage from The Economist, Financial Times, EurActiv and Finfacts Ireland.For the executive summary, click here. This book is available through the Brookings Institution Bookstore here.
- "Weak Dollar, Strong Euro a Welfare Analysis"
Click here for the presentation of Inaugural CTR Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow Dr. Luis Marques on January 28, 2008 with The Honorable João de Vallera, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States. - Flexicurity -- A Model for the U.S.?
Denmark's flexicurity system is being touted as an answer to the challenges of outsourcing, job transitions and globalization. CTR Visiting Fellow Anna Ilsøe explains the Danish system and offers some advice for Americans here. - Economic Sanctions and International Peace and Security
Chapter by CTR's Chantal de Jonge Oudraat in Leashing The Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall (Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace, 2007) - click here. - OECD Report on EU: Achieve the Single Market or Face Declining Prosperity
The OECD released its first-ever survey of the European Union, hitting out at European governments for protecting their markets from outside competition, and saying that further reforms to spur competition and strengthen the single market are needed to guarantee the long-term prosperity of all its citizens. Click here for more. - "Weathering the Storm – The Impact of the Financial Market Turmoil on European and Global Economies"
On October 18, 2007, EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Joaquin Almunia spoke at CTR - click here to read his prepared remarks. - Transatlantic Leadership for a New Global Economy
The US and the EU must lead a major effort to restructure the governing institutions of a new international economy and seek new ways to reduce barriers to trade and investment, according to a Commission including CTR Director Dan Hamilton and CTR Senior Fellow Joseph Quinlan. Their report, Transatlantic Leadership for a New Global Economy, is the product of a commission sponsored by the Atlantic Council, co chaired by Stuart E. Eizenstat, former deputy secretary of the Treasury, and Grant D. Aldonas, former under secretary of Commerce. To read the report, click here. - Time to Open Transatlantic Markets
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has revived the notion of a new transatlantic economic initiative. Dan Hamilton and Joe Quinlan outline the possible form and impact of such an initiative in articles for the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Financial Times and the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German original; English version). - Opening Atlantic Skies
EU and US negotiators have inched closer to a long-sought deal on freeing-up air traffic across the Atlantic -- a move which could create 80,000 jobs and generate $15 billion in economic benefits. What are the stakes involved? What would be the impact on the U.S. and EU economies of an Open Skies agreement? Click here and here for analyses. - US-EU Summit April 30
US and EU leaders agreed to launch a new economic partnership and to cooperate in a variety of areas. For the summit documents, click here. - Dan Hamilton and Joe Quinlan Receive 2007 EABC Atlantic Leadership Award
CTR Director Dan Hamilton and CTR Fellow Joseph Quinlan were presented with the private sector 2007 Atlantic Leadership Award by the European-American Business Council on March 7. The Council recognized Hamilton and Quinlan for their "many years of thought leadership on the value and robust nature of Trans-Atlantic trade and investment. Hamilton and Quinlan move the observer past impressions and trendy thinking to present the facts of the European-American commercial relationship. The result is a more accurate and factual understanding of its importance to job and wealth creation for all involved." Click www.eabc.org for more details. - Sleeping Giant: The Transatlantic Services Market
Click here for the series of presentations from this one-day conference held on February 8, 2007. - A Transatlantic Capital Market?
Assessment of the implications of the first global securities exchange, by SEC Chairman Christopher Cox and CTR Director Dan Hamilton - click here. - The Transatlantic Technology Gap is Widening, Warns the UK Government
Article from Euractiv - click here. - 2006 Transatlantic Business Award
The American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union announced that Daniel Hamilton, director of the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR), and Joseph Quinlan, CTR fellow and Wall Street economist, received the 2006 Transatlantic Business Award. - Transatlantic Services Market
What would be the impact of a single transatlantic market in services? Click here for analysis by CTR Director Dan Hamilton and Fellow Joe Quinlan. - Bioscience Innovation and Industry Competitiveness in Europe and the United States
Bioscience is emerging as the innovation driver across many economic sectors, from health care to energy, food and biodefense, and is deeply rooted in transatlantic interconnections. Deeper integration and further innovation is hampered, however, by various barriers on each side of the Atlantic. Fabio Pammolli and Massimo Riccaboni of the IMT Center for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy presented a report at CTR on this issue in April 200. Find out more here. For a May 2006 OECD study comparing European biopharma innovation systems, click here. - Globalization and US-UK Economic Integration
CTR Director Dan Hamilton and CTR Fellow Joe Quinlan offer an "8-D" look at America's deepest economic relationship here from the Spring 2006 issue of Network New York London. - Back in the USA--Watch for More European Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S.
2006 article by Joseph Quinlan - click here.
