Name: Delegation for relations with the United States Ordinary meeting D-US ordinary meeting
Uploaded: 2026-10-21T16:00:00+00:00
Duration: 6659 s

08:00 - 08:13

Hi. Hi, camera. I take you as part of the interior here because I know you so well. So I was like, I mean, what, what changes you make? Sorry, I'm a little bit...

08:13 - 08:18

It's been, it's been a month and a half that's been very long. So, yes.

09:24 - 09:50

Good afternoon, everyone. I'm very happy to welcome you to this meeting of the Delegation for relations with the United States. I'm very happy to see you all here. I know that it's a very busy week for everyone, so I'm very happy that you've made it here. And I'm also very happy to welcome our guest, Mr. Mark Gitenstein, the US Ambassador to the European Union.

09:50 - 09:53

Thank you very much for being here with us today. It's a pleasure to have you here.

12:10 - 15:15

Speaker 1

Good evening, colleagues. Thank you for coming to today's meeting on the delegation for relations with the United States. I will step in for Brando for the time being as vice chair and perhaps he'll come in in a little bit and then we'll switch. But we'll make the meeting slightly more dynamic because of that. Anyway, first point is the adoption of the agenda.

Are there any objections? I don't see any, so the draft agenda is adopted. Second point is approval of the minutes of the meetings of the 20th of May 2026. So are there any objections? I don't see any, so the draft minutes are adopted and approved.

And this brings me to the fourth point as I'll leave the third point for Brando as he've attended those meetings.

So the fourth point for, no, it's actually the fifth point. The fifth point of our agenda is the exchange of view, which I think we are why we are mostly here today. We're going to have an exchange of view on the 2026 Transatlantic Economic Report. I'm very happy to welcome Thibaut L'Ortye, who's the Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer at AmCham EU, as well as Daniel Hamilton, who's a senior fellow fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University. Welcome Daniel, I believe you're connected and with us.

What the report presents are facts and figures about the economic relationship between Europe and the United States. I think some of us have seen that report already, but as we have heard a lot about tariffs and trade wars, it is well worth having a closer look at how our economic relations actually look today.

What impact can we see from those tariffs and more importantly, what are the tendencies in that domain? Perhaps you will be sharing with us some fresh new figures which have even not been released, and so we look very much forward to that as it can equip us and to be well prepared in our meetings, discussions and debates with our counterparts, but also with constituencies and media. So I would like to first give the floor for five minutes to Thibault Lorthiois and followed by Mr. Hamilton for ten minutes. So Thibault, you have the floor.