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Winter/Spring 2008
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Written by Michael Brenner
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 The revived constitution for the European Union has renewed interest in prospects for its under-achieving Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Timely and welcome as this interest is, it is dismaying to see that it is being spurred by legal mandates and still-modest institutional reforms. It is the acute external pressures that menace Europeans’ wellbeing that ought to compel and inform moves to re-engage on the pressing issue of whether, and how, Europeans can act in concert to cope with an unruly world. The Middle East in particular presents a set of intersecting, combustible crises that pose clear and serious danger to the continent’s safety, stability and economic (energy) security. Iraq, Iran, Palestine/Israel, Lebanon – each is spinning further and further out of control. Each is aggravated by the serial failures of American policies that have dominated the action while queering the pitch for tentative European diplomacy (unilateral, trilateral or collective).
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Winter/Spring 2008
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Written by Michael Chertoff
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 A curious notion has emerged about how the United States has tried to navigate the seas of global security since the September 11 terrorist attacks. It depicts Washington as charting a solitary course characterized by premises, principles, and policies which diverge dramatically from those of other nations – notably its European allies.
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Roundtables
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Following the European Parliament’s recent initiatives to improve European-U.S. cooperation on data privacy and toward reaching an agreement on General Principles of Data Protection, a discussion was convened with a delegation of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, headed by The Hon. Jonathan Evans, Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the U.S. James Halpert, Partner at DLA Piper served as the moderator. Members of the delegation, including Frieda Brepoels, Patrick Gaubert, Luis Herrero-Tejedor, Sophie in’t Veld, Piia-Nora Kauppi, Berès Prevench and Baroness Sarah Ludford, expressed the need for stronger transatlantic dialogue on data protection, particularly their concerns about SWIFT and PNR information exchange within a common framework for the safeguard of personal information in an environment of heightened security. The U.S. perspective was presented by Peter Chase, Director, Office of European Union and Regional Affairs, U.S. Department of State and Matthew McCabe, Counsel, House Committee on Homeland Security. They expressed their belief that a solution can be found on oversight discussions, as the U.S. and EU share similar values. |
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