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Reading between the lines of the new France-UK nuclear entente

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Léonie Allard

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Kier Starmer released a “truly historic” declaration on nuclear planning on July 10.

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Atlantic Update: EU Economies Struggling

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May 27, 2025

British ambassador to the US: The UK must ‘become less dependent on America, while remaining inseparably linked’

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Peter Mandelson

In speaking at the Atlantic Council’s 2025 Christopher J. Makins Lecture, Peter Mandelson outlined how the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe can foster peace through military, economic, and technological strength.

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Atlantic Update: EU Economies Struggling

New Atlanticist
Jan 27, 2025

The case for a US-UK trade and investment agreement

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L. Daniel Mullaney

As US President Donald Trump begins his second term, the United Kingdom is the right partner for the United States, and now is the right time for a deal.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 21, 2009

Atlantic Update: EU Economies Struggling

By Peter Cassata

With news understandably focused on the inauguration this weekend, I’ve compiled a roundup of recent transatlantic economic developments that may have been overlooked.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 15, 2009

Time to Lose War on Terror?

By James Joyner

In a Guardian op-ed and a speech in Mumbai, both today, British foreign secretary David Milibrand says that the “war on terror” was a bad idea.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 13, 2009

U.S. Overtaking Italy as Top Wine Consumers

By James Joyner

The wine world is turning upside down, with upstarts drinking more wine than traditional powers France and Italy, Jenny Barchfield reports for AP. Global wine consumption, on the rise in past years, is forecast to continue to grow in the coming ones, with the United States overtaking Italy as the world’s biggest consumer by 2012, […]

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New Atlanticist

Jan 13, 2009

UK: Pakistan Government Not Behind Mumbai Attacks

By James Joyner

David Miliband has absolved the Pakistani government of direct responsibility for the Mumbai terrorist attacks, while at the same time saying they need to do more to crack down on those responsible.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 6, 2009

Back on the “Special Relationship” Merry-go-round

By Alex Massie

Sure as eggs is eggs, the arrival of a new American president heralds fresh fretting in the British press over the precise state of the so-called “Special Relationship”. Today’s text comes courtesy of Rachel Sylvester, writing in the Times. It’s worth considering in some detail:

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New Atlanticist

Dec 17, 2008

Financial Crisis Pushes Labour Left

By James Joyner

NPR’s Rob Gifford asks, “Is Britain’s Labour Party Back To Pre-Blair Ways?” After Tony Blair was elected British Prime Minister in 1997, he blurred the line between the Labour Party and the usual opponent, the Conservative Party. But the global financial crisis has forced Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take the Labour Party back to […]

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New Atlanticist

Dec 11, 2008

Britain’s Shameful Iraq Withdrawal?

By Neil Leslie

Britain announced that it could withdraw its 4,100 remaining troops from Iraq by June 2009 if Iraqi elections in January go off peacefully. The withdrawal will mark the end of a six-year campaign, and the conclusion of an unpopular war both at home and abroad. Yet British troops can leave with their heads held high, […]

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New Atlanticist

Dec 10, 2008

Brits Not Joining Euro Despite Falling Pound

By James Joyner

Martin Walker argues that the precipitous fall of the British pound, which has lost a quarter of its value since the summer and is now at historic lows against the dollar, will not, as European Commission President Jose Barroso and others have speculated, nudge the UK into the Eurozone.

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New Atlanticist

Dec 10, 2008

How Special is the Special Relationship?

By James Joyner

Retired brigadier and author Allan Mallinson writes in the Times of London that the special relationship between the UK and the US “needs repair work.”

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New Atlanticist

Nov 14, 2008

G20 Summit: The View from Europe

By Peter Cassata

Will this weekend’s G20 summit really be “Bretton Woods II?”  The answer from Europe (like the U.S.) seems to be no. 

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