Economy & Business

TTIP and the Fifty States: Jobs and Growth from Coast to Coast

A groundbreaking new report from the Atlantic Council, the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the British Embassy in Washington, entitled TTIP and the Fifty States: Jobs and Growth from Coast to Coast, explores the impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on the economies of all fifty United States. In summer 2013, representatives of the […]

Advocates Join Forces to Explore Impact of TTIP on All 50 States

In summer 2013, representatives of the United States and European Union opened negotiations to establish the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which seeks to deepen the relationship between the world’s two leading economies and create the world’s largest free trade area. The effort will align the two regions’ regulatory regimes, strengthening the economies without […]

Top US Diplomat for Europe Calls for a “Transatlantic Renaissance”

By John Kerry and Victoria Nuland, Department of State

Secretary of State John Kerry: [I]n Brussels, Toria helped guide NATO through a very critical and uncertain time when Article 5 was invoked in September of 2001

US Ambassador to Germany: Trans-Atlantic Cooperation is ‘Indispensable’

By John Emerson, Department of State

People call the United States the indispensable nation

Obama and Nordic Leaders Launch New Security Dialogue

By White House

Excerpt from Joint Statement by Kingdom of Denmark, Republic of Finland, Republic of Iceland, Kingdom of Norway, Kingdom of Sweden, and the United States of America

Yemen’s Economic Quandary

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

While Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia are reeling from serious political setbacks, Yemen has been proceeding relatively peacefully with a political transition that started in November 2011 with the departure of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh under a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-brokered power-transfer deal.

Hollande Finds Confidence, Vision, and Voice—Now It’s the French People’s Turn

By Nicholas Dungan

Earlier today, President François Hollande provided what many had been waiting for since his inauguration a year ago: a confident vision of the future and a clear idea of France’s place in it. It would be easy, but erroneous, to underestimate how big a difference this change of discourse can make.

America’s Missed Opportunity in Egypt

By Matthew Bryza

The brutal crackdown on August 14 by Egypt’s interim government on supporters of ousted President Mohammad Morsi will produce no winners. Both the secular interim government and its Islamist predecessor demonstrated they lack the intellectual and political tools required to cope with Egypt’s complex challenges. Now, all Egyptians will suffer as the country descends into […]

Central Asia Can’t Be Forgotten

By James L. Jones

The transformation of Central Asia and the Caucasus that began twenty years ago—and in which the transatlantic community has a vital stake—is incomplete and uncertain. Despite progress, numerous problems remain. They vary from country to country, but among the most ubiquitous are ineffective governance, political systems that lack public participation and transparency, shortcomings in the […]