Mohamed A. El-Erian
Transatlantic Trade’s Transformative Potential
NEWPORT BEACH – After instant and seemingly coordinated fanfare in Europe and the United States, the proposal for a European Union-US free-t…
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Determined to stimulate their economies, the United States and the European Union have announced plans to negotiate a bilateral agreement aimed at removing the remaining barriers to trade and strengthening investment ties. But will the proposed prospective Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, widely hailed as a potential boon for economic growth and job creation, live up to the hype?
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Ana Palacio
Winning the Transatlantic Trade Challenge
MADRID – US President Barack Obama’s announcement that negotiations will begin on a comprehensive “Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partne…
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Javier Solana
The European-American Dream
MADRID – Today, three European countries are among the world’s seven largest economies. Ten years from now, only two will remain. By 2030, o…
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Robin Niblett
Transatlantic Trade-Offs
LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
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Anne-Marie Slaughter
The Coming Atlantic Century
PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
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Lawrence H. Summers
Will the Global Economy Add Up?
CAMBRIDGE – This year has begun on a note of cautious optimism for the global economy. Europe is back from the brink. The United States did …
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Peter Sutherland
The Bilateral Threat to Free Trade
ISTANBUL – The Doha Round of global trade talks appears to have died this year, almost without a whimper. While a small portion of the proje…
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Javier Solana
Transatlantic Free Trade?
MADRID – This month, the United States National Intelligence Council released a sobering report entitled Global Trends 2030: Alternative Wor…
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Jagdish Bhagwati
The Broken Legs of Global Trade
NEW YORK – The Doha Round, the latest phase of multilateral trade negotiations, failed in November 2011, after ten years of talks, despite o…
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Jagdish Bhagwati
America’s Threat to Trans-Pacific Trade
MUMBAI – As if undermining the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global free-trade talks was not bad enough (the last ministerial mee…
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