Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership

On September 16, 2003, CSIS launched its Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership. The Initiative is action- and future-oriented, multidimensional, and nonpartisan. It aims to produce a body of studies and an agenda of policy recommendations that take as their premise the fact that transatlantic cooperation lies at the heart of effective responses to the world's most pressing strategic challenges. In this context, the confluence of a newly enlarged Europe, focused on further integrating its 27 member states, and a United States at the start of a new congressional term, makes imperative the need for regular, focused, problem-specific dialogue and high-level strategic thinking among U.S. and European policy experts, politicians, and business and military leaders.