The Future of Transatlantic Relations

In Europe, we have followed the 2024 US presidential and congressional elections with both interest and concern. The transatlantic partnership faces enormous challenges and its survival is everything but certain in view of rising nationalism, populism, and neoisolationist sentiment on the other side of the Atlantic. At the same time, many of the troubling phenomena we have been witnessing in the U.S. such as divisive polarization, acrid rhetoric, and political gridlock have also come to shape European politics.

To discuss these and related aspects and to analyze the results of the 2024 US presidential and congressional elections, former members of the US Congress Bob Goodlatte, Republican from Virginia (1993-2019), and Brenda Lawrence, Democrat from Michigan (2015-2023), will join us for a brown-bag-lunch, to which you are cordially invited. Sharing their political insights with us, they will present their take-aways from the election results and look forward to your questions.