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"The European Union is another unique and invaluable partner in both terms of deepening integration and sustaining Transatlantic collaboration. An economic powerhouse by any standard, the EU and its single market have underwritten the economic success of Western Europe and constitute a principal mechanism for extending prosperity to Central and Eastern Europe."Recognizing the EU's role and importance, we have taken dramatic steps to raise our cooperation to an even higher level with the New Transatlantic Agenda, signed by President Clinton and his EU counterparts in December 1995. This agenda has turned U.S.-EU relations on their axis: We no longer issue heartfelt promises; we now work on concrete agendas. Second, the scope now encompasses all of Europe. Our goal is to extend the methods which made our Western interaction so successful to all of Europe."
Excerpt from A Tour Through the New Atlantic Community.
Assistant Secretary Kornblum, Washington, DC (10/8/96)
- 12/18/00: Secretary Albright (Signing Ceremony for U.S.-E.U. Higher Education Agreement)
- 11/20/00: Secretary Albright (United States Backs European Rapid Reaction Force)
- 11/03/00: Under Secretary Pickering (America's Stake in Europe's Future)
- 10/02/00: Secretary Albright (U.S.-EU Ministerial Press Conference with Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, High Representative Solana, and Commissioner Chris Patten)
- 05/12/00: Assistant Secretary for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs David Sandalow (Reflections on Transatlantic Environmental Cooperation)
- 03/18/00: Secretary Albright (Remarks at Aspen European Dialogue)
- 03/10/00: Secretary Albright (Remarks at the dedication of the new U.S.-EU chancery)
- 03/10/00: Secretary Albright (Press remarks with European Union President Romano Prodi)
- 03/08/00: Secretary Albright (Press availability with EU Commissioner Christopher Patten)
- 03/03/00: Secretary Albright (Press conference with Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama and French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine following U.S.-EU Ministerial)
- 03/03/00: Secretary Albright (Press conference with Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, EU Commissioner for External Affairs Chris Patten, and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov following U.S.-EU-Russian trilateral meeting)
- 02/04/00: Under Secretary Thomas Pickering (A Transatlantic Community for the 21st Century)
- 01/26/00: Secretary Albright (Remarks at European Institute Awards Dinner)
- 12/20/00: United States and European Community Renew Agreement on "Program of Cooperation in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training"
- 12/08/00: EU Summit Decisions on European Security and Defense Policy
- 03/14/00: U.S.-EU Hushkit Dispute: U.S. Files Article 84
- 12/19/00: Report of the U.S.-EU Biotechnology Consultative Forum
- 05/26/98: The European Union
- 05/26/98: U.S.-European Union Relations
- 05/26/98: The New Transatlantic Agenda
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