From Global Europe: If Europeans and Americans are to be safe at home, the United States need to boost its direct cooperation with EU institutions, and those institutions must take their new responsibilities seriously…

Creating common standards in airline security or reaching a legal accord on data protection will be difficult, given our different legal regimes. Yet it is urgent that we succeed. The Washington Declaration needs to be reinforced by a series of specific initiatives. Consideration should be given to a transatlantic arrest warrant. Joint investigation teams, including Europol and Eurojust, should be established to cooperate on cases that cross international borders. Cooperation should be extended to new areas, including cybercrime, trafficking in humans and drugs, and arms smuggling. A legal and organizational basis for U.S. cooperation with Europol is needed. U.S. cooperation with Frontex, the EU border protection agency, must be improved. The U.S. and EU should consider launching a public-private Global Movement Management Initiative to align security and resilience with commercial imperatives in global movement systems, including shipping, air transport, and even the internet. The EU’s new Stockholm Program places strong emphasis on prevention, opening doors for transatlantic cooperation on upstream security issues related to risk analysis, research, threat assessments, and disaster mitigation.

Excerpt from essay by Daniel Hamilton, Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University. (graphic: Department of Homeland Security)