Transatlantic Economic Issues

• Flexicurity -- A Model for the US?
  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.

• Protecting our Prosperity
  This new study by CTR Director Dan Hamilton and CTR Fellow Joe Quinlan examines the economic and jobs impact of foreign investment on America and individual states.  Click here for a copy of the study and to read a wire service story on the study, please 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.

• CTR Publications
  The Transatlantic Economy 2005
  Deep Integration: How Transatlantic Markets are Leading Globalization
  Partners in Prosperity: The Changing Geography of the Transatlantic Economy