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STOPWATCH 4
The Transatlantic Link

Special interactive video forum series with Jamie Shea

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NATO Review - Autumn 2004
Towards a new transatlantic consensus
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Stopwatch - Special interactive video forum series with Jamie Shea
 

Today’s security challenges make it seem even more necessary that NATO Allies and partner countries work closely together. However, it will be discussed whether NATO is still important to the United States and to the European Union.

The experts taking part are:

  • Ambassador Daniel Speckhard, Head of the Policy Planning Division for the Private Office of the Secretary General
  • Jim Cloos, Director, Directorate IV Transatlantic Relations, Council of the EU (Biography PDF/19Kb)
  • Tomas Valasek, Center for Defense Information
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After the Bush visit can we say that the improvements in transatlantic relations is going to be a durable one?

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Chancellor Schröder of Germany made a speech where he seemed to suggest that. that NATO was no longer the primary forum for discussion of the key transatlantic issues. How do you interpret what he was saying?

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Do you sense that it's fair to say that the EU is now the status quo power in Europe? And it's the U.S. that really is in the driving seat to bring about these changes, such as we saw in Ukraine recently?

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Transcript of the forum - Audio version: .MP3/ 10873Kb

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