How can Europe and the United States join forces to rewrite the post-COVID trade agenda?<\/p>\n
Under the Biden administration, Americans and Europeans need to rebuild as close a transatlantic relationship as possible. Transatlantic partners may have different viewpoints on specific trade issues. But both sides have much to gain by working together on trade related issues in many areas and intensifying the closest economic relationship there is between any two big markets in the world. Europeans and Americans face a number of constraints to return to a more positive trade agenda than what we have experienced during the last four years of transatlantic relations. The WTO has been weakened by various developments, not least Donald Trump\u2019s policies and the systemic challenge China is posing to the way we view open and fair trade. With that said, there are no winners when the world economy is impaired by trade tensions and especially Europe and the U.S. have much to gain from a joint trade agenda. This program will explore:<\/p>\n
\u25cf What should be the cornerstones of transatlantic re-engagement on trade and what, concretely, could Europeans and Americans reach agreement on in the near-term?<\/p>\n
\u25cf What does Europe mean by \u201cstrategic autonomy\u201d and how will pursuing it affect the transatlantic relationship?<\/p>\n
\u25cf Do sectoral agreements in areas like professional recognition of qualifications, freedom of Movement, and types of trade in services not covered by the WTO’s \u201cessentially all trade\u201d requirement promise a good way forward? How could they leverage common transatlantic standards for their advantage?<\/p>\n
\u25cf What might be a cooperative way to approach sanctions, data regimes, and subsidies that have been a source of transatlantic tensions?<\/p>\n
\u25cf How could they approach WTO reform and bring China into multilateral disciplines ensuring a more leveled playing field?<\/p>\n
SPEAKERS:<\/p>\n
\u25cf Pascal Lamy, Former Director-General, WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO)<\/p>\n
\u25cf William Alan Reinsch, Former President, NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL<\/p>\n
\u25cf Jonathan Hackenbroich, Policy Fellow, EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS [Moderator]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How can Europe and the United States join forces to rewrite the post-COVID trade agenda? Under the Biden administration, Americans and Europeans need to rebuild as close a transatlantic relationship as possible. Transatlantic partners may have different viewpoints on specific trade issues. But both sides have much to gain by working together on trade related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"mec_speaker":[],"class_list":["post-3409","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n