Lawfare Archive: Ambassador David O'Sullivan on the US-EU Relationship
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🗓️ 2 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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From October 9, 2018: It's easy to spend all our time focusing on American domestic politics these days, but the rest of the world is not going away. Take the European Union, for example—our neighbors from across the pond, and one of the US's most valuable economic and security relationships. There's a lot going on over there, and some of it even involves us. How is that relationship faring in the age of tariffs, presidential blusters, Brexit, and tensions over Iran sanctions?
To figure that out, Shannon Togawa Mercer and Benjamin Wittes spoke to David O'Sullivan, the EU Ambassador to the United States. They talked about the US-EU trade relationship, Iran and Russia sanctions, Privacy Shield, the rule of law in deconsolidating democracies in the EU, and more.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Emily Day and this is an episode from the LawFair Archive for October 2nd 2021. |
| 0:46.2 | This past Wednesday, the United States and European Union held the inaugural meeting of the |
| 0:50.5 | US EU, training technology council to discuss several major economic and technological challenges, |
| 0:57.0 | but the meeting was nearly derailed by the US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan without |
| 1:00.9 | consulting European allies in the recent August deal. |
| 1:04.5 | For today's episode, Itoz a conversation between Shannon Tagawa Mercer, Benjamin Wittis, |
| 1:09.2 | and David O'Sullivan, the former EU ambassador to the US about the evolving relations between |
| 1:13.8 | the US and EU. |
| 1:22.5 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast October 9th 2018. |
| 1:29.4 | It's easy to spend all our time focusing on American domestic politics these days, but |
| 1:35.0 | the rest of the world is not going away. |
| 1:38.5 | European Union, for example, are neighbors from across the pond and one of the US's most |
| 1:44.8 | valuable economic and security relationships. |
| 1:48.2 | There's a lot going on over there and some of it even involves us. |
| 1:52.4 | How is that relationship fairing in the age of tariffs, presidential bluster, Brexit |
| 1:57.8 | intentions over Iran sanctions? |
| 2:00.9 | To figure that out, Shannon Tagawa Mercer and I spoke to David O'Sullivan, the EU ambassador |
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