TLN’s Transatlantic Technology and Trade Forum, comprised of private sector experts and public officials, explores digital and trade challenges and opportunities for the United States and Europe. Topics range from issues surrounding data governance, technology platforms and standards in emerging technologies to global trade challenges, ICT security and competitiveness, and misuse of technology threatening security and human rights. Policy briefs recommend action by the United States and the European Union, including via their Trade and Technology Council (TTC); background papers offer additional details on various issues. 

• Reconciling Digital Strategic Autonomy with Transatlantic Partnership: A US–EU Agenda, chapter in Decoding EU Digital Strategic Autonomy: Sectors, Issues, and Partners
• Getting to Yes: Making the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council Effective, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Remarks to the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), U.S. Stakeholders Roundtable, Daniel S. Hamilton
• The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council: Assessments and Recommendations, Emily Benson, William Alan Reinsch, and Andrea Leonard Palazzi, CSIS
• The Tech and Trade Council: An accident report, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, ECIPE

Topics:

ICT Security and Competitiveness

Policy Brief: 

• Forging a Transatlantic Technology Alliance: Opportunities and Challenges Related to ICT and Cloud, Daniel S. Hamilton

 

Background Papers:

• Compensation between Content and Application Providers (CAPs) and Network Operators (IAPs), J. Scott Marcus, Bruegel
• Fair share or effective incentives? Infrastructure investments and Sending Party Network Pays in the EU, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Robin Baker, ECIPE and LSE
• The Re-Emergence of the Net Neutrality Debate in Europe: Implications for Fundamental Freedoms, Joan Barata, Verfassungsblog
• Big Tech Pay-Outs to European ISPs Would Just Concentrate Their Power, Konstantinos Komaitis, Electric Frontier Foundation
• The Global Trend That Could Kill The Internet: Sender Party Network Pays, Konstantinos Komaitis and K.S. Park, techdirt
• US and EU approaches to 6G, Ali Khayrallah & Hugo Tullberg
• Global 6G Initiatives – Research Landscape, Peter Vetter
• 6G – a (short) European Perspective, Bernard Barani

 

Climate and Clean Technologies

Policy Briefs: 

• Time for TACTA: Forging a Transatlantic Clean Technology Alliance, Daniel S. Hamilton, The Hill
• Zeit für transatlantische Technologieallianz, Daniel S. Hamilton, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung [in German]
• The United States and the European Union in the Climate Races, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Winning the Climate Races: Recommendations for U.S-EU Action, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Making the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council Work for Climate and Clean Tech: Recommendations for Action, Daniel S. Hamilton

 

Background Papers:

• Energy Outlook in the 118th Congress, Joe Britton, Pioneer Public Affairs
• Climate-Smart Options for EU Innovation and Climate Policy, Tobias Lechtenfeld, Tech for Neto Zero Allianz
• The EU Reaction to the IRA: Politics, Policy and Prognosis, Martin Porter, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
• The Inflation Reduction Act, Alex McDonough, Pioneer Public Affairs
• IRA & IIJA: An Investment in Jobs, Climate, and Security, Joseph Britton, Zeta
• A turning point of US climate action: Assessing the Inflation Reduction Act, John Larsen, Rhodium Group
• Clean Energy Technology – An Opportunity for Trans-Atlantic Leadership, Jonathan Elkind

 

Technology Standards in New and Emerging Technologies

Policy Briefs: 

• Promoting U.S.-EU Coordination and Cooperation on Technology Standards: Recommendations for Action, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Artificial Intelligence: Recommendations for U.S.-EU Action in the Trade and Technology Council, Daniel S. Hamilton

 

Background Papers:

• Identifying Common Transatlantic Principles for AI Regulation, Meredith Broadbent
• Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on Technology Standards, Carisa Nietsche
• Policy Brief – Considering the U.S.-EU TTC Working Group on Technology Standards, Jeff Grove and Craig Updyke

 

Promoting Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) Access to and Use of Digital Tools

Policy Brief: 

• Promoting Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises Access to and Use of Digital Tools, Daniel S. Hamilton

 

Background Papers:

• Digitalization & Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Kathryn Lundquist
• SME digitalisation for more resilient economies, Marco Bianchini and Lora Pissareva
• SME adoption of digital technologies: a Transatlantic view, Stefano da Empoli and Giusy Massaro 

 

Advancing Supply Chain Resilience and Competitiveness

Policy Briefs: 

• Advancing Supply Chain Resilience and Competitiveness: Recommendations for U.S.-EU Action, Daniel S. Hamilton 
• Enhancing Resilience in Pharmaceuticals Supply Chains, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Enhancing Semiconductor Supply Chain Resilience and Competitiveness: Recommendations for U.S.-EU Action, Daniel S. Hamilton 

 

Data Governance and Tech Platforms 

Background Papers:

• Chasing Transatlantic Alignment on Digital Issues, Frances G. Burwell, Atlantic Council
• On joined up law-making: the privacy/safety/security dynamic, and what this means for data governance, Victoria Baines
• Regulating the Globalisation of Data: Which Model Works Best? Erik van der Marel
• On New Regulation of Europe’s Digital Markets, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
• Regulating Platforms the EU Way? The DSA and DMA in Transatlantic Context, Frances Burwell
• How the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council Cooperation Can Navigate Conflict and Find Meaningful Cooperation on Data Governance and Technology Platforms, Nigel Cory
• Can the EU and US find common ground on data and platform governance? Susan Ariel Aaronson
• US and EU collaboration on data governance and technology platforms, Paul Timmers 

 

Misuses of Technology to Threaten Security and Human Rights

Background Papers:

• Towards Strengthening the Transatlantic Tech Diplomacy: Trustworthy AI in the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council, Raluca Csernatoni, Carnegie Europe/Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• EU and U.S. AI Risk Management: A Comparison and Implications for the TTC, Alex C. Engler, Brookings Institution
• Building a Transatlantic Consensus on AI Governance: The Trade and Technology Council’s Advances and Challenges, Caroline Jeanmaire, Oxford University
• Addressing the Misuse of Technology to Threaten Security and Human Rights,  Nina Jankowicz
• Transatlantic Approach to AI,  Dominika Hajdu and Miroslava Sawiris

 

Global Trade Challenges

Background Papers:

• The changing nature of digital trade, current and future barriers and ideas to overcome them, Javier López-González
• US-EU relations in the first year of President Biden: A view from Brussels,  Maria Demertzis
• Global Trade Challenges, William Reinsch and Emily Benson [also available via CSIS]

 

Data Flows and Privacy Rights

Background Papers:

• American Perspectives on Transatlantic Data Flows, Peter Swire, Ashley Gorski and Theodore Christakis
• Privacy Rights and Data Flows – A Conversation with Max Schrems, Max Schrems with Mark Scott

 

The United States, Europe, Trade and Technology

General Overview Papers: 

• The Expanding Digital Frontier, Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan
• The Importance of Digital Services to the U.S. and European Economies, Daniel S. Hamilton and Joseph Quinlan
• The Digital Acceleration, Daniel S. Hamilton
• The Digital Revolution: Scenarios for Enhanced Transatlantic Cooperation, Andrea Renda
• Time for a U.S.—EU Digital Alliance, Tom Wheeler
• Boosting Transatlantic Technology Cooperation, Robert D. Atkinson