What Europe wants from President Obama

What Europe wants from President Obama

External Author(s)
Tomas Valasek

Written by Tomas Valasek, 27 November 2008

Barack Obama was the preferred candidate of most Europeans. He will have Europe's goodwill and with it, a window of opportunity to restore transatlantic co-operation on key security issues. Whether he succeeds will depend in part on the president-elect's willingness to try out new approaches to key foreign policy challenges. Europe will expect the substance of US foreign policy to change as much as its style.