Category: US-EU Relations

A new survey suggests that Europeans still do not trust the US. Some very interersting figures in the article, go look.

Ivo Daalder and Michael Levi call on the US and Europe to come together over Iran.

William Pfaff on transatlantic relations, 2004 will be the year of reconciliation, but the US Administration will not forgive. Two annual events in January provide useful forecasts about the coming trans-Atlantic weather. One is the annual seminar on security matters by the American ambassador to NATO. The other is the World Economic Forum in Davos.…

This is a rather interesting piece of writing. I think is the best article I’ve read in a while. I think I’ll put it all in, in case the IHT decide to take it down later.

I hadn’t heard of this story in the Nation before now, it also made the front page of La Figaro earlier. Apparently Cheney and Halliburton might have been involved in some very dodgy dealings in Nigeria…

Jonathan Power with another good article on the transatlantic relationship. I could not agree with him more on his closing statement. Will humanity ever learn from history? While there can be no doubt that Europe badly needs its own single foreign policy, beefing up a collective military points in all the wrong directions. Europe has…

Jim Hoagland at the Washington Post discusses the Transatlantic relationship. Both the Bush administration, which has been overly dismissive of other nations, and its guerrilla critics need to remember Rule One of crisis behavior: When you are in a hole, stop digging.

The US ambassador to NATO, R.Nicholas Burns, writes in today’s IHT. He gives an upbeat review of NATO’s perfomance over the last year, worth a look.

One way of understanding how the French really feel about the United States these days is to ask them not about Iraq but about Arnold Schwarzenegger. When the Austrian-born actor won the governorship of California, some politicians and commentators said that his victory reflected a dangerous American populism. But many French shared the enthusiasm of…

There is a Cold War between the US and the EU, says Mark Steyn, and it will end with the collapse of Old Europe. The trick is to manage the relationship until the Europeans, like the Soviets, collapse. Europe is dying, and it’s only a question of whether it goes peacefully or through convulsions of…