Transatlantic Relations: Converging or Diverging?

Published in January 2018 in an environment of significant political uncertainty in both the US and Europe, this report from the Chatham House Project US and the Americas Programme, Transatlantic Rift: The State of US-Europe Relations focuses on the long-standing and fundamental drivers behind US and European policymaking, and sets out recommendations to address key structural factors that threaten the durability of the transatlantic relationship.

While these structural factors cannot be assessed wholly in isolation from the current, highly visible political context, it was nonetheless necessary to put the latter in proportion. How would the present political turmoil, evident on both sides of the Atlantic, affect the long-term health of the transatlantic relationship when considered alongside other developments?

While the path may be rocky in the short term, the longer-term fundamentals of the transatlantic relationship remained strong.

• Primary Source

Blog: LSE EuroppBlog, 27.01.18: Donald Trump’s rhetoric has only highlighted the already growing rift between the EU and the US http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/01/27/donald-trumps-rhetoric-has-only-highlighted-the-already-growing-rift-between-the-eu-and-the-us/

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