Featured commentary & analysis
The Future Europe Initiative uses real-time commentary and analysis to explain to key audiences in America current developments in Europe and how they affect the transatlantic relationship.
Wed, Sep 18, 2019
A geopolitical European Commission: Can the incoming president make it work?
The selection process and presentation have been received relatively well and signal a new Commission leadership adept at messaging and politics. But questions remain whether Ursula von der Leyen can make the complex Commission work
New Atlanticist by Olivier-Rémy Bel and Jörn Fleck
Mon, Aug 26, 2019
Trashing friends puts America last
By tying the national interest to unilateral territorial demands, the US president puts himself in the same camp as Vladimir Putin. Putin’s strategy is also dismissive of international rules and the sovereignty of smaller nations, and appears to hold that only through force and intimidation can Russia advance its interests.
New Atlanticist by Daniel Fried
Tue, Jul 23, 2019
France’s digital tax: all about leverage?
The new measure should be a warning that European states will adopt unilateral solutions to update tax rules
New Atlanticist by Jörn Fleck and Alex Baker
Featured in-depth research & reports
The Future Europe Initiative conducts research to guide the actions and strategy of key transatlantic decision makers on the issues that will shape the future of the transatlantic relationship.
Wed, Sep 18, 2019
A transatlantic agenda for the new European Commission
The new European Commission will take office on November 1, 2019, at a time of intensifying great power competition and new strain for transatlantic relations. This memo gathers the contributions of several Atlantic Council experts on a variety of issues such as defense, foreign policy, trade, and energy policy
Issue Brief by Benjamin Haddad and Jörn Fleck (Eds)
Thu, Sep 12, 2019
US surveillance on trial in Europe: Will transatlantic digital commerce be collateral damage?
In this issue brief, Kenneth Propp, non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative, examines the existing transatlantic data-transfer mechanisms, the landmark court case that could invalidate them, and the divergent US and EU approaches to data transfers across borders and privacy standards. On July 9, 2019, Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems challenged […]
Issue Brief by Kenneth Propp
Thu, Jun 6, 2019
The United States and Central Europe: Tasks for a second century together
The year 2019 marks one hundred and one years of relations between the United States and the countries of Central Europe that emerged from the wreckage of the First World War. After a century of work together, of tragedy and achievement, Central Europe and the United States have much to celebrate and defend, but also […]
Report by Daniel Fried, Jakub Wisniewski, Denise Forsthuber, and Alena Kudzko
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