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New Atlanticist

Dec 1, 2020

ECB President outlines her plans for overcoming the second wave of economic damage from COVID

By David A. Wemer

Although lockdowns are beginning to ease across Europe after a brutal second wave of coronavirus infections in October and November, governments need to prepare for a second economic hit, Christine Lagarde said on December 1.

Coronavirus Digital Policy

EconoGraphics

Dec 1, 2020

Global QE Tracker

By GeoEconomics Center

This Global QE Tracker allows users to compare the major central banks’ different quantitative easing policies, offers in-depth breakdowns of each institution’s specific QE measures, and explains in clear terms how QE and interest rates work together to produce successful monetary policy.

Economy & Business European Union

In the News

Nov 25, 2020

Kasperek speaks at EconPol Europe Annual Conference 2020

By Marie Kasperek

Panel Discussion: The US Election: What Impact on EU-US-Asia Trade Relations? Read more here.

Europe & Eurasia European Union

Elections 2020

Oct 30, 2020

Five big questions as America votes: Europe

By Future Europe Initiative

For the past seven decades, Europe has been the United States’ political, economic, and security partner of first resort. Now, as the transatlantic relationship is challenged by internal and external forces, the EU and the United States find themselves at a crossroads in the relationship.

Coronavirus Digital Policy

Event Recap

Oct 9, 2020

Event recap: A conversation with Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Justin Muzinich

By GeoEconomics Center

A recap of the event featuring Deputy Secretary of US Treasury Justin Muzinich, who joined the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center for an address on the transatlantic economy.

Economic Sanctions Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Aug 21, 2020

Unconventional monetary policy is not a free lunch in Europe or the United States

By Andrzej Rzońca and Grzegorz Parosa

The European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve responded to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with a similar prescription to the one they used during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), but this time they multiplied the dose.

Coronavirus European Union

New Atlanticist

Jul 27, 2020

What happened to transatlantic cooperation on WTO reform?

By Marie Kasperek

Contrary to the transatlantic aspirations on WTO reform in the summer of 2018, there is now less cooperation, more setbacks, and a bleak outlook for at least the rest of 2020.

European Union Eurozone

New Atlanticist

Jul 27, 2020

Perfect competition: Getting a US-EU trade deal was never going to be easy

By Julia Friedlander

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer recently criticized the EU for negotiating seventy-seven individual trade agreements globally. What was more striking in this comment was not the criticism of Brussels, but what that number revealed about the transatlantic dilemma. Europe can take home ancillary prizes but the golden goose—an agreement with the United States—remains out of reach.

European Union Eurozone

New Atlanticist

Jul 27, 2020

Two years after Rose Garden deal, Europe prefers to wait it out

By Bart Oosterveld

Two years after the Juncker-Trump summit, a realistic scenario for transatlantic trade discussions in the next few years is progress on minor aspects. Think of lullaby topics like closer alignment of insurance regulation. With such political uncertainty, policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic will hope for agreements that the press tunes out quickly and make sure that farmers do not block the access roads to Paris.

European Union Eurozone

New Atlanticist

Jul 27, 2020

Europe and the US should remember their Rose Garden intellectual property pledge

By Marc L. Busch

While progress on protecting intellectual property since the summit has been disappointing, it still provides a compelling opportunity for the United States and Europe to join forces to protect this key economic freedom.

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Experts

Staff

Lize de Kruijf

Project Assistant, Economic Statecraft Initiative

Economic Statecraft Initiative GeoEconomics Center

Dutch Economic Sanctions

Fellow

Danuta Hübner

Distinguished Fellow

Europe Center

Democratic Transitions Economy & Business

Fellow

Paul Adamson

Senior Advisor

Europe Center

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

Fellow

Dimitar Bechev

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Europe Center

The Balkans Security & Defense

Fellow

Erik Brattberg

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Europe Center

Danish Digital Policy

Fellow

Chris Brummer

Nonresident Senior Fellow

GeoEconomics Center

Digital Currencies Economic Sanctions
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