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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...

The Czechs are habitually portrayed as among the most Eurosceptical in the EU. A recent survey suggests this might be nothing but a myth. It has become conventional wisdom to...

A new survey shows that Americans view Asian countries, not European ones, as the most important partners for the US. Europeans who found themselves discounted and ignored a...

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States did lasting damage to the European Union. In the initial aftermath of the attacks, the European Union...

The five principles we should apply in considering the use of force. All the world hates a hypocrite. When states preach virtues they do not practice, or set lower hurdles...

There are plenty of advocates of a low-carbon future, but much less agreement over how to make it happen. The European political project was forged on the heroic, polluting...

Welfare systems and optimism help to explain the EU-US split in economic policy – and why it will persist. Like brothers in arms united in combat but divided in peace,...

The ‘war on terror' poisoned some silos of intelligence co-operation. Now WikiLeaks is a pest on the whole farm. The greatest victim in the WikiLeaks affair threatens to...

Space-going nations to work closer together. The world's leading space-going nations last Thursday (21 October) agreed on a set of specific steps intended to ensure there is...

Both the US and Europe are suffering from their sense of exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, when it runs rampant, is a tsunami to be avoided. The oil company BP is...

Why we are setting ourselves up for another boom based on excessive risk-taking at the heart of the world's financial system. Opinion is sharply divided about how the next...

Obama's roadmap for space exploration might help send Europeans to Mars. In April, Barack Obama donned the shoes of a predecessor in the US presidency, John F. Kennedy, and...

The transatlantic relationship is in need of repair and João Vale de Almeida is not the man for the job. It is little wonder that many member states want to keep the...

The idea of a G2 formed by the US and China suddenly seems far less plausible. Remember the G2? The US's financial difficulties and foreign entanglements, together with...

The European Commission's approval of some genetically modified foods has angered many, but should be seen as part of a broader effort to manage the pressures from member...

The EU must convince the US to abandon a policy whose flawed logic condemns it to failure. Legislative and presidential elections were due to take place in January across...

Could Spain again usher in a new period of enhanced EU-US co-operation? Mark Twain, the author of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, is credited with having said...

The profiling of air travellers is unlikely to counter terrorism. To date, the policy responses to the foiled terrorist attack over Detroit have been marked more by bravado...

Clumsy Russian tactics are boosting NATO in eastern Europe, and making the Kremlin look weak. In the 1990s, when enlarging NATO to take in the ex-communist countries still...

India has more chance of joining a G3 than the EU. “Do not forget India.” That warning made sense 10 or 15 years ago; not any longer. India is now impossible to ignore,...