Joe Biden’s election as President of the United States presents an opportunity to renew the transatlantic relationship, after four rocky years. The US and Europe cannot of course simply go back and pick up where they left off when Mr. Biden was Vice President. But there is sufficient enthusiasm today to look for a renewed common sense of purpose between partners of first resort. In US-EU relations and within NATO, considerable effort will have to go into rebuilding trust, aligning threat perceptions, breaking down barriers to collaboration, maximizing defense value for money and tackling new and emerging challenges collectively. Today, no problem can be solved successfully by the US alone, by the EU alone or by NATO alone. Yet, today also, Europeans will have to address more forcefully the imbalances of military capabilities and engagements and beef up their responsibilities in the field of security and defense. Are recent EU initiatives up to the job? How could the incoming strategic review in the United States impact on European efforts under way, both within NATO and the EU?

𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀: Federica Mogherini, Rector of the College of Europe and former High Representative of the EU for Foreign and Security Policy, Vice-President of the European Commission Jim Townsend, for eight years Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO at the Pentagon, currently Senior Fellow at the Washington based Center for a New America Security Nick Witney, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council of Foreign Relations and the first Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency François Arbault, Director of Defence Industry (DEFIS), European Commission 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿: Ambassador Dirk Wouters, former Ambassador of Belgium to the United States, and to the European Union, Co-Chair of the America Europe Fund