Transatlantic disputes must not undermine EU and US counter-terrorism

Transatlantic disputes must not undermine EU and US counter-terrorism co-operation

Briefing note
Adam Townsend
05 June 2003

Not all is doom and gloom in the tattered transatlantic relationship. EU member-states and the US are co-operating effectively over terrorism. But the US needs to work more with the EU as a whole, rather thansimply through individual European governments. Moreover, officials on both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly concerned that co-operation could be undermined by the poisonous political climate.

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