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Last year was a big year for US trade policy and 2012 could be more active still. In its first two years in office, the administration of US President Barack Obama was...

Leaders discuss eurozone crisis, foreign affairs at summit in Washington, DC. Obama says US 'ready' to help eurozone tackle crisis The United States and the...

It took a trip to the US to bring the eurozone crisis into sharper focus. The eurozone crisis has entered a new phase that may yet prove even more inglorious than the last....

Without co-ordination, Europe and the US risk rewriting their corporate-tax codes in self-destructive ways. As governments on both sides of the Atlantic scramble to...

US efforts to create a Trans-Pacific Partnership provide a unique opportunity for the European Union. With a US Congressional vote on trade deals with South Korea, Colombia...

The financial sector is still in the “doom loop” – and so, therefore, are we. It has become fashionable among Washington insiders – Democrats and Republicans alike...

China's unusually maladroit international performance has raised the stakes for President Hu Jintao. President Hu Jintao will travel to the United States for his third...

Budget cutting and deficit reduction will be a major preoccupation in Washington this year, with important implications for European interests. Recent weeks have seen a...

Negotiations begin on the sharing of passenger name records for security purposes. The European Union and the United States have launched negotiations on the sharing of...

Europeans are about to discover just how much US elections affect them. American voters have spoken. And, in a tidal wave, the Republicans have won an overwhelming majority...

Foreign policy chief 'closely involved' in talks, despite being in China. Officials say Catherine Ashton, the EU's foreign policy chief, will ensure that the EU remains...

De Almeida "first" EU ambassador under Lisbon João Vale de Almeida yesterday (10 August) presented Barack Obama, the president of the United States, with his credentials as...

Official makes the move from Washington to Brussels. Angelos Pangratis, the deputy head of the EU's delegation in Washington, DC, is coming back to base – at least for the...

Why the Socialists & Democrats group in the European Parliament now supports the sharing of Europeans' bank-transfer data with the US. Despite strong international pressure,...

Despite major decisions taken in Berlin, Brussels and Washington, the worst of the crisis may still be ahead. Turning points in history are notoriously difficult to...

The European Parliament now has the US Congress's attention. Here are seven ways its attention could be kept. The administration of US President Barack Obama had a rude...

Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, has written to Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, complaining that member states were not consulted on...

Obama wants to change the balance of the international economic order. Europe will need to adapt or to persuade him otherwise. In his State of the Union speech on 27...

The transatlantic relationship needs a new sense of purpose. A new year, a new European Commission and a US president who can no longer get by simply by not being George...

Obama's envoy to NATO is an intellectual heavy-hitter, well-versed in diplomacy. The post of US ambassador to NATO has traditionally entailed – alongside its obvious...