By Joe Guinan and Nicola Lightner The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization is now dead. Like the Monty Python parrot, it has passed on, is no more, has ceased to be, expired and gone to meet its maker, kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the [...]

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Commentators in the United States speculate that the 2008 presidential election will be a close one once again.   With many states in play, candidates will turn to the some 54 million disabled to shore up their vote tallies in places like Pennsylvania and Ohio. For example, in the 2000 presidential election, the reported voting [...]

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Much of the commentary on the recent trip by Senator Barack Obama to Europe has–understandably–focused on what his trip means for U.S. presidential politics.   But one can also ask about what it tells us about future transatlantic relations.   It is of course eye-opening and refreshing to see 200,000 Germans demonstrating in favor of [...]

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Bronislaw Geremek, who played a crucial role ending communist rule in Poland and then guiding Poland to democracy, NATO and the European Union, was killed in an automobile accident July 13. His was a public life to celebrate. Born in Warsaw, Geremek escaped from the Warsaw ghetto when he was 11and remained in hiding until [...]

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As I crossed the border from Turkey to Georgia, the border agent checking my U.S. passport smiled, gave me an American-style thumbs up, and said in broken English,”United States good, John McCain good.” This was in April, only two weeks, after Georgia received disappointing news at the NATO Summit in Bucharest that a Membership Action [...]

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After much speculation, Barack Obama’s team has announced he will travel to Europe this summer   – to Paris, Berlin, and London (the dates have not yet been announced for security reasons, although the London stop is rumored to be planned as early as next week).   John McCain visited Europe last March once it [...]

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Picture a long line of dominoes, each one representing one of the globe’s special clubs, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, or the International Atomic Energy Agency, and so on. At the front of the line stands the European Union. Evidenced by the sheer amount of media coverage, the Irish “no” vote on [...]

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Despite the strains on the transatlantic relationship caused by events like the Iraq war – as evidenced in public opinion studies, like GMF’s Transatlantic Trends – optimism is rising about improved relations with a new U.S. administration in 2009. But underlying the political aspect of the relationship has been a flourishing economic relationship that helps [...]

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“We are freezing, but we are very excited to be here” was the reaction of the first group of American, African and European TFMI participants descending from the airport shuttle bus and pulling their suitcases across the gravel to Castle Hotel Pommersfelden. The organizing team who rushed to great them handed over the conference material, [...]

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