Based on surveys conducted in 15 member states and of the European Union as a whole, this working paper (published in November 2008) explores what the EU and its individual member states expect from the United States in the post-Bush era. Individual case studies outline the concrete issues and fields of action that Europeans seek to address in the transatlantic format.
Jan Techau is Head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin. Alexander Skiba is a Robert Bosch Stiftung Fellow and a former Program Officer in the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Studies at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.