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The UK and EU Must Moderate Brexit and the US Must Get Smart About What is Unfolding

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The UK and EU Must Moderate Brexit and the US Must Get Smart About What is Unfolding

New Atlanticist
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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The UK and EU Must Moderate Brexit and the US Must Get Smart About What is Unfolding

New Atlanticist
Jan 27, 2025

The case for a US-UK trade and investment agreement

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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

Jun 8, 2017

The UK and EU Must Moderate Brexit and the US Must Get Smart About What is Unfolding

By Ilana Bet-El

To use an old Thatcherite adage, the United States, United Kingdom and European Union are all living in cloud cuckoo land, seemingly vastly underestimating the medium- to long-term effects of Brexit: a dramatically weakened UK, an undermined EU, and fragmented transatlantic relations. Put another way: the transatlantic rift that has clearly already opened over NATO […]

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New Atlanticist

Jun 8, 2017

British Election: Can Data Science See Through the Fog of Terror Attacks?

By Brent M. Eastwood

Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the front-runners in the British general election, have endured a volatile race punctuated by two terror attacks that have rocked Britain. With campaigning suspended twice after each incident and British pollsters’ failure to predict Brexit, FutureSource queried a data science firm to get its reading […]

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FutureSource

Jun 7, 2017

The 2017 UK General Election and the Future of US-UK Relations

By Claire Yorke

On June 8, the United Kingdom will vote in its second general election in just over two years. The last election in May 2015 resulted in a Conservative government, and led to the June 2016 national referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union. Following the result in favor of Brexit, Prime Minister David Cameron—the leader […]

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In the News

Jun 7, 2017

Gedmin in The American Interest: Losing Our Grip, From Paris to Podgorica to London

By Jeffrey Gedmin

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In the News

Jun 7, 2017

Dale in US News: Looking for Leaders in the United Kingdom

By Reginald Dale

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FutureSource

Jun 7, 2017

British Election: Can Data Science See Through the Fog of Terror Attacks?

By Brent M. Eastwood

Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the front-runners in the British general election, have endured a volatile race punctuated by two terror attacks that have rocked Britain. With campaigning suspended twice after each incident and British pollsters’ failure to predict Brexit, FutureSource queried a data science firm to get its reading […]

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FutureSource

Jun 6, 2017

The UK and EU Must Moderate Brexit and the US Must Get Smart About What is Unfolding

By Ilana Bet-El

To use an old Thatcherite adage, the United States, United Kingdom and European Union are all living in cloud cuckoo land, seemingly vastly underestimating the medium- to long-term effects of Brexit: a dramatically weakened UK, an undermined EU, and fragmented transatlantic relations. Put another way: the transatlantic rift that has clearly already opened over NATO […]

Europe & Eurasia European Union

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2017

May’s Lead Slips in the Polls Days Before UK Election

By John Roberts

With polls showing a narrowing margin between UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the British general election to be held on June 8 is starting to look quite interesting. The idea that May would secure a landslide victory—one so prominent when she unexpectedly called the election five weeks ago—now seems […]

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In the News

May 13, 2017

Ellinas in Cyprus Weekly: What Comes Naturally

By Charles Ellinas

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Defense Industrialist

May 10, 2017

Is imported steel a threat to American national security?

By James Hasik

It hasn’t been, it isn’t now, and it probably won’t be in the future. Last month, President Donald Trump promulgated a memorandum on “Steel Imports and Threats to National Security,” directing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to consider whether “steel is being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to […]

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