Economy & Business

The ECB and the Future of Eurozone Bank Supervision

By Atlantic Council

Montanino argues ECB’s comprehensive assessment is a sign of a healthy banking system The Atlantic Council held a members’ call on Monday, October 27 with incoming Global Business and Economics Director Andrea Montanino. The call was in response to the ECB’s results of its highly-anticipated comprehensive assessment, combining an in-depth asset quality review of the […]

TTIP Action | October 23

By Global Business & Economics Program

The Importance of the Internet and Transatlantic Data Flows for US and EU Trade and InvestmentIn his most recent blog entry, Joshua Meltzer, fellow for global economy and development at Brookings, stresses the importance of data flows for transatlantic trade, and global investment. With regards to TTIP, he underlines that the transatlantic economic relationship is […]

Workman on US-Europe Trade Agreement

By Garrett Workman

Handelsblatt quotes Global Business and Economics Program Associate Director Garrett Workman on the stalled transatlantic trade pact: 

News on TTIP | October 14

By Global Business & Economics Program

This Trade Deal with America would have Churchill BeamingThis blunt opinion piece by London Mayor Boris Johnson in the Telegraph is excellently written and incredibly entertaining. Johnson describes TTIP as a “Churchillian project,” in that it fosters not only British- American but also transatlantic links. To him, objections to TTIP, as illustrated by recent demonstrations, […]

Italian Prime Minister Renzi reiterates Italy’s Committment to TTIP

By Global Business & Economics Program

Remarks by Ambassador Michael Froman: “Dialogue on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership “This is a natural moment to take stock of where we are, how far we’ve come, to step back and honestly assess the challenges that lie ahead.” Yesterday, US Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman spoke at an event in Rome, stressing the […]

TTIP Action | October 14

Ignore the Critics – TTIP is Something the Left should Fight forIn his opinion piece, John Healey, a British Labour Party MP and chair of the the All-Party Parliamentary Group on EU-US Trade & Investment, addresses recent criticism of the political Left on TTIP. Healey urges the critics to consider TTIP as an unprecedented bilateral […]

TTIP’s Strategic Impact Comes into Focus

By Global Business & Economics Program

More than Just a Trade AgreementI recently wrote a piece for US News and World Report arguing that peace and economic prosperity are inextricably linked. TTIP cannot be viewed as just another trade agreement. In fact, given all of the uncertainty from Russia and Ukraine to Iraq and Syria to Ebola, TTIP has only gained […]

Nigeria’s Finance Minister: African Economy is ‘Nearly a Hot Prospect’

By New Atlanticist

Alongside its urgent focus on West Africa’s outbreak of the Ebola virus, the world should stop to notice a bigger, more basic African fact—the explosive growth of its economy and middle class—says one of the continent’s top economists. Two decades after Africa earned a reputation as the world’s economic basket case, accelerating growth has nearly […]

Negotiators Insist Good Progress Made During the 7th Round

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Round 7 Chief Negotiators’ Press Conference Opening Remarks“We are committed to an agreement that not only advances our economic interest, but also reflects our values and has the support of our public, and this requires that we be open and attentive to the views of that public.”Last Friday, the US and EU’s chief negotiators […]