Transatlantic Topics | EU-US

• An Agenda for U.S. - EU Relations
  CTR worked with the EU Institute for Security Studies on their latest volume addressing cooperation on the broader Middle East; non-proliferation; economic challenges; and 'unfinished business' in wider Europe. The book is available here. CTR Director Dan Hamilton provides further commentary for Deutsche Welle on the US-EU Summit and shifting perspectives on the US and Europe here.

• Germany and the US - Towards a Special Relationship?
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments for Eurasian Review here.
  
  
• U.S. and Poland: Mutual Interests?
  As President Obama travels to Poland, Bart M.J. Szewczyk looks at the bilateral relationship here.
  
  
• Obama's crucial moment in Poland
  CTR Senior Fellow Kurt Volker, together with Ivan Vejvoda and Damon Wilson, argue that the President has an opportunity to renew progress on a Europe, Whole, Free and at Peace in an article for the Christian Science Monitor here.
  
  
• Obama and Europe: What Kind of Relationship?
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments on the President’s European visit for CNN here.
  

• Shoulder to Shoulder: Forging a Strategic U.S.-EU Partnership
  CTR's publication with seven other U.S. and European think tanks proposes concrete steps towards a more effective and strategic partnership between the United States and the European Union. View more information here.

• European Security and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
  SAIS Professor Erik Jones' co-edited book is available here.

• The Atlantic Imperative in an Era of a Global Power Shift
  Themes advanced in CTR's bookShoulder to Shoulder are echoed and developed in this article by Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, foreign editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy.

• Obama and Europe Two Years On
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments for Deutsche Welle.

• US-EU Economic Issues Before the Congress
  A new CRS report outlines the challenges and opportunities.

• Congress and European Parliamentarians: The Weakest Link
  The resignation of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg as Germany’s Defense Minister exacerbates the serious gap in U.S. expertise among European parliamentarians, argues CTR Director Dan Hamilton in the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel (in German) and in English here.

• March Madness and German Techno
  All across the USA crowds are cheering on their favorite teams in the NCAA basketball tournament. The common denominator: German techno. Try out your German and hear CTR Director Dan Hamilton's explanation of why America has become a "Zombie Nation" (starts at 6:18 on the audio program), or read the Deutsche Welle article.

• 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).
  
  
• Foreign Policy After the US Mid-Term Elections: Avoiding a New Isolationism
  CTR's Kurt Volker comments in La Stampa (in Italian) here (in English).
  
  
• A Mid-Course Correction of Obama's Foreign Policy?
  CTR Senior Fellow Don Jensen comments here in Voice of America, November 2010.

• Changing the Foreign Policy Guard in the U.S. House
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments for CNC on the House Foreign Affairs Committee here.
  
  
• Haltzel Leads U.S. Delegation to OSCE Review Conference
  CTR Senior Fellow Michael Haltzel will lead the U.S. delegation to the Vienna portion of the OSCE Review Conference October 18 to 26. This is the second part of the three-part review conference leading up to the Astana OSCE Summit in December 2010.  Read the press release here.
  
  
• Closing the Gender Gap: Global Perspectives on Women in the Boardroom
  CTR hosted an all day conference on this topic.  The Embassy of Norway covered the event on their website here.
  
  
• The ICC at Eight - Assessing U.S. Policy and International Criminal Law: Reciprocal Influences
  Read 2009-2010 Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow at CTR Patricia Pinto Soares' report here.
  
  
• Europe Gets It Right
  CTR's Kurt Volker comments here, with Juan Zarate in Foreign Policy, on the continent's surprising comeback.
  
  
• The U.S.-EU Bank Data Transfer Deal
  CTR's Kurt Volker explains the importance of the agreement here in World Politics Review and here in an op-ed with Juan Zarate for CBS News.

• The Treaty of Lisbon: What does it Mean?
  Read CTR Director Dan Hamilton's testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives here.
  
• The Future of Transatlantic Power
  Interview with CTR's Dan Hamilton here in Yale University's The Politic.
  
  
• Transatlantic Divisions over Welfare
  In the wake of the health care debate, Europe and the US still approach welfare differently. Rabah Ghezali comments here.

• With Friends Like These....
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments on the Swedish election debate over foreign policy here.
  
  
• The End of the Old World Order and Leadership to Build the New One
  Former President of the Government of Spain José María Aznar spoke at CTR on April 28. Read his speech here, or click here for the event audio.
  
  
• The OSCE Corfu Process: Is it Relevant to Euro-Atlantic Security?
  Solveig Richter and Andrea Schmitz from SWP explain.
  
  
• Obama and Europe: Year Two
  CTR's Kurt Volker writes here that U.S.-European differences have been laid bare, and CTR's Dan Hamilton argues here that the Obama moment is still an open moment -- to use or to lose. CTR Director Dan Hamilton describes transatlantic challenges in this article for the German weekly Das Parlament (in German)here. For the full set of essays click here. Dan Hamilton and Nikolas Foster join other experts to outline challenges and opportunities ahead here.
  
  
• Did Obama Snub Europe?
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton explains why President Obama decided against an EU-US Summit in Spain, on BBC news here (32 minutes into program).
  
  
• Needed: A Social Dimension to Transatlantic Economic Relations
  Read recommendations from Metropolitan University in London here.
  
  
• The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike
  Author Peter Baldwin presented his book at CTR.
  
  
• Angela Merkel Comes to Washington
  CTR's Michael Haltzel gives his views here.
  
  
• Climate vs. AfPak: Two Different Agendas at the US-EU Summit
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton explains for GlobalEurope.
  

• Europe and America: No Escape
  CTR's Kurt Volker tell us why in GlobalEurope.

• 100 Days -- what grade has the President earned?
  See the VOA video summary and interview with CTR Director Dan Hamilton here and text here.
  
  
• Road to Hell?
  EU Presidency Critique of Obama Administration Damages G20 Prospects
  
  
• Obama and the EU
  Bruce Stokes says it’s time to rebuild a tattered partnership here. The EUISS explains the argument here and the Bertelsmann Foundation does so here.
  
  
• Obama’s Change and U.S. Relations with the World
  What it all means, by EUISS's Marcin Zaborowski here.
  
  
• Congratulations, Mr. President -- here is Europe's Agenda
  Thomas Bauer at CAP tells us what it is here.
  
  
• A New President Will Ask More of Europe
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton makes the case here and here.
  
  
• Is the United States a "Normative" Power?
  How does the US balance its realpolitik interests with its dedication to international norms? Click here to download this chapter by CTR's Dan Hamilton in CEPS's publication Who is a Normative Foreign Policy Actor? The European Union and its Global Partners by Nathalie Tocci. Order the book on the CEPS website.
  
  
• Release and Review of the Report: “The Decline in America's Reputation: Why?"
  On June 11, 2008, CTR's Esther Brimmer testified to the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight - click here for her testimony.
  
  
• "The Most European of Americans"
  Click here to read a portrait of CTR's Esther Brimmer (in French) in La Revue.
  

• Obama and Clinton: Rescuing Transatlantic Relations?
  Will a Democrat in the White House positively affect the state of transatlantic relations?  Democrats are more international, but are they also more European?  CTR's Esther Brimmer comments here for Deutsche Welle (in German).
  
  
• The Political Legacy of Lafayette for Franco-American Relations
  On December 14, 2008 CTR's Esther Brimmer gave a speech on Lafayette's legacy at a conference of the French-American Foundation.  Click here for the speech text or here for her interview with Laurent Zecchini in Le Monde (in French).
  
  
• A Janus-Faced Presidency?  Forecasting Transatlantic Relations under a Democratic U.S. Government
  CTR's Rana Deep Islam examines here the different policy implications of a possible Democratic Administration.
  
  
• Is there still a Transatlantic Community?
  CTR's Esther Brimmer commentary is published in the Summer-Fall edition of the French journal Politique Americaine as "Que reste-t-il de la communauté transatlantique?"  Click here for more.
  
  
• Legislative Views of Transatlantic Economic Council
  How do U.S. and European legislators view the U.S.-EU Economic Council? Click for short commentaries by Senator Robert Bennett, U.S. Representatives Costa and English, and MEP Erika Mann from the Fall 2007 issue of Freedom and Union.
  
  
• Europe Watches U.S. Elections
  CTR's Rana Islam comments in Deutsche Welle Online (in German) here on Europe's bias towards the Democratic Party in the coming U.S. Presidential elections.
  
  
• Presidential Candidates and US-EU Relations
  How will Obama, Clinton and McCain approach transatlantic ties? Read an analysis with comments by CTR Director Dan Hamilton here.
  
  
• Advancing Equality of Opportunity in Education and Employment: What can Americans gain from French experience?
  Some U.S. states have begun to replace affirmative action with so-called "percentage plans" that parallel France's “color-blind” model. For more from the French-American Foundation click here for English and here for French.
  
  
• Seeing Blue?  American Visions of the European Union
  In September 2007, the European Union Institute for Security Studies published a monograph by CTR Deputy Director Esther Brimmer entitled Seeing Blue? American Visions of the European Union, in their Chaillot Paper series.  For ordering information or to obtain the PDF click here.
  
  
• Transatlantic Relations: The Role of the Media
  Gerhard Spörl and Gregor Peter Schmitz look here at the way European and American media cover the "other side" and examine how media sometimes accentuate transatlantic rifts.
  
  
• Transatlantic Thinkers:  The US and the EU at the UN
  Thorsten Benner and Edward C. Luck examine approaches taken by Europeans and Americans towards the UN in recent years - and recommend how closer transatlantic cooperation can help to make the most of the "Ban years" in an essay here.
  
  
• Americas Forum on International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL)
  CTR Non-Resident Fellow Anne Richard participated in the IDRL Forum held on April 23-24, 2007 in Panama City. For a draft report and list of participants, click here.
  
  
• Memo to Chancellor Merkel-  Working with the United States during Germany's Dual Presidencies
  CTR Director Dan Hamilton was asked to offer German Chancellor advice on working with the US during Germany's dual Presidency of the EU and the G8. Read his memo here.
  
  
• Does America Still Want a Strong Europe?
  Read commentary by CTR Director Dan Hamilton in the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel on March 24, 2007, in English here and in German here.
  
  
• Transatlantic Thinkers:  Are we losing Latin America?
  Peter H. Smith examines US and EU approaches to Latin America in recent years and recommends how to reengage Latin America in a common transatlantic effort here.
  
  
• What do Europeans think about America?
  John Glenn, Foreign Policy Director for the German Marshall Fund of the United States, recently testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on European public opinion toward the United States and its policies. Read his views here.
  
  
• Transatlantic Priorities: The Short List
  Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried outlines transatlantic priorities in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Russia here.
  
  
• Ambassador Scharioth Hosts Transatlantic Celebration on EU’s 50th
  German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth invited Ambassadors of EU countries, Ambassador John Bruton, head of the European Commission Delegation in Washington,  and local university students for a discussion about the future of Europe.  Click here for more and to read the written student contributions.
  
  
• US Elections:  What Do They Mean for Foreign Policy?
  Analysis by CTR Senior Fellow Michael Haltzel - click here.
  

• The Merkel Method
  Germany's Grand Coalition has been in office for one year. How has Merkel done? Click here for Dan Hamilton's essay "Methode Merkel" (in German) from the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
  
  
• Germany's New Vistas
  16 years after Germany's unification Angela Merkel is leading her country in new directions. How does today's unified Berlin Republic differ from the divided Bonn Republic? Listen to an interview with Dan Hamilton (in German) here.
  
  
• "Transatlantic Challenges for the 21st Century: Mending Fences with America’s European Allies" 
  On October 17 2006, CTR hosted the Inaugural Conference for Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). Featured speakers included Leszek Balcerowicz, President of the National Bank of Poland; Adam Kobieracki, Assistant Secretary General for Operations, NATO; and Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS.  Click here for the agenda, transcripts and related presentations.

• "When the World Wanted to Help America"
  Op-ed by Anne Richard appearing in the International Herald Tribune (August 30, 2006) on America's response to offers of foreign aid following Hurricane Katrina.  Please also see "From a Land Far Away, Help for Katrina Victims," by Anushka Asthana, Washington Post, September 8, 2006.

• Angie, Where Will You Lead Us From Here?
  What does the rise of German Chancellor Angela Merkel mean for German-American relations? Find out from CTR Director Dan Hamilton here; read first assessments of Merkel's foreign policy by leading commentators here; or listen to commentary by Dan Hamilton together with GMF Foreign Policy Fellow Karen Donfried and German Coordinator for Relations with North America Karsten Voigt from the April 3 Diane Rehm Show on NPR/WAMU here.

• Friends Again? EU-US Relations After the Crisis
  How far have the US and EU come from the days of 'freedom fries' and wine boycots? For one American view by Michael Brenner click here.  For a European view by Marcin Zaborowski click here.