Category: US-EU Relations

Reginald Dale, editor of the policy quarterly European Affairs, and a media fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University has a curious piece in today’s IHT. In it he criticises the EU for considering reopening arms trade with China. He warns that if the EU takes such a course, it could lead to a…

The United States and the European Union have reached a final accord on resolving a transatlantic row over rival satellite positioning systems and will seal the deal at the US-EU summit this week in Ireland, officials from both sides said Monday. At one point, Washington suggested that the Galileo was an unnecessary rival to GPS…

Pierre Lellouche with yet another analysis of transatlantic relations, he notes: I can remember U.S. presidents who were derided for being ignorant (Reagan), incompetent (Carter), or bumbling (Ford). But never have I such a rejection, bordering on hatred, as I see today for Bush. He dislikes the anti-Bush line, but would like to see something…

Felix G. Rohatyn, United States ambassador to France from 1997 to 2001, has another piece in the IHT on transatlantic relations. Another appropriate piece to be reading on a day like today… I have seen France at its most tragic in 1940, and I have seen it at its best in later years. Although there…

Josef Joffe, editor of Die Zeit, has written a piece in today’s IHT. He decries the levels of anti-americanism prevalent in Europe today, while hoping for an improvement in transatlantic relations. I agree with his criticisms of anti-americanism: Perusing the European media from Madrid to Munich in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, one…

Richard Reeves thinks that Bush and Blair have about 100 days left to prove what they did in Iraq was the “right thing to do”. Interesting piece.

As ever I love the subject of transatlantic relations, this article is a few days old but I’ll stick it up anyway. Will Europeans be happier if Kerry is elected? And will it improve relations?

One of the most interesting pieces I’ve read on the subject this year – the apparent lack of interest in the US at the EU’s impending expansion. It is a significant development in global affairs – the EU will be a bloc with a population of almost half a billion people, bordering countries such as…

Martin Jacques with an interesting take on the trans-atlantic relationship. Best question: For over three centuries the world was hugely Euro-centric. The cold war may have granted a 50-year extension on its lease, but 9/11 finally marked closure. How does a relatively small continent, which has played such a humungous global role for so long,…

Mark Leonard, of the Foreign Policy Center in the Uk, believes that Europe should thank Rumsfeld for his attempts at disaggregation of East and West Europe.