Mr Brian MURPHY, Director, European Centre, Georgia University, Atlanta, Etats-Unis
Intervention : 'Strengthening the Transatlantic Dimension: the EU-US relationship in transition'

With the end of the cold war, the EU and the US are in the process of defining a new relationship. The problem is that the factors which had stabilized the relationship are no longer relevant. A new strategic pattern of cooperation must be negotiated. The US must learn to coexist with a partner of equal status and minimize a tendency to behave unilaterally. The EU, in turn, must assume a greater share of the burden in a way that does not undermine the transatlantic structure. This task will be difficult since each partner must accept a role in which it is currently not comfortable. Nonetheless, it is unlikely that world harmony can survive without such a reorientation in the transatlantic context.