Reply #4: So, that agreement to this partnership [View All]

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The Transatlantic Partnership

Working together during the last 60 years, the United States and the countries of Western Europe have reshaped the world: strengthening global peace and security, preserving and promoting democracy, opening up trade and promoting higher standards of living for more people, in more countries, more quickly than at any time in history.

In December 1995, the two sides signed a practical, step by step work plan: the New Transatlantic Agenda. In it, they pledged close collaboration to:

• promote peace and stability, democracy and development;
  
• expand world trade;
  
• grow their own commercial ties and build bridges between industries, companies and peoples in Europe and the US;
  
• respond to new global challenges like drug trafficking and terrorism.

The transatlantic partnership is now looking to the future. There has been renewed interest to strengthen the EU/US relationship, as shown by the visit of President Bush in February 2005 to the EU institutions, the first US President to do so. As a result, there is a growing impetus to remove the remaining barriers to trade and investment through the Transatlantic Economic Initiative (2005) as well to increasingly work together to face global challenges. Detailed conclusions agreed at the recent US-EU Summits testify to this deepening relationship

Means, we have 'rollback' to pre-Boston Tea Party?