The only union of its kind
The European Union
Growing from its start as the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Union today has twenty-seven member states and is the only democratic, intergovernmental, supranational organization in the world. It has risen as a key actor and norm-setter in areas as diverse as trade, energy security, digital policy, and defense. In an era of great power competition, the United States has a national interest in the EU reinvigorating faith in the European project among Europeans and the rest of the world.
Thu, May 13, 2021
Exclusive poll: Europeans are warming to the US in the Biden era
There’s “hope and optimism” about the transatlantic policies that the United States and EU can create today, said Benjamin Haddad, but there are also “some concerns on some disagreements that have not disappeared with the [US presidential] election.”
Wed, Apr 14, 2021
Do continued EU data flows to the United Kingdom offer hope for the United States?
As the Biden administration and the European Commission “intensify” negotiations to re-establish a stable transatlantic data-transfer framework, Brussels separately is moving ahead to enable unrestricted data flows with two other major trading partners: the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea.
New Atlanticist by Kenneth Propp
Wed, Feb 10, 2021
Charles Michel on renewing EU-US ties: ‘For global challenges, we need global solutions’
“With the new Biden administration, there is [in] Europe a feeling of hope and the expectation that it will be possible… to rebuild a very strong alliance—what I have called a ‘new founding pact’ between the United States and Europe,” said European Council President Charles Michel.
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Thu, May 6, 2021
Europe’s post-COVID strategy: Stay close to allies and build strength at home
Cooperation between the United States and the EU to distribute vaccines globally would constitute a partnership “to save the world,” said Thierry Breton, European commissioner for internal market, at the Atlantic Council’s EU-US Future Forum.
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Wed, May 5, 2021
The urgent task before the US and EU: To craft democracy that ‘delivers’
Věra Jourová, vice-president for values and transparency at the European Commission, and US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) joined the Atlantic Council’s EU-US Future Forum to discuss how to defend democracy.
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Wed, Mar 24, 2021
Forty years after: How Greece can help usher in tomorrow’s Europe
Today, as the European Union is reinvigorating its partnership with the United States and working toward enlargement in the Western Balkans, with the significant strategic support of Greece, the time is ripe for articulating our hopes and expectations for the emergence of a coherent, geopolitical European Union.
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