Delegation for relations with the United States Ordinary meeting Outcome of the midterm - US elections
9 November 2026
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DELEGATIONS European Parliament
00:04 - 03:22
Speaker 1
Good afternoon, and welcome to the meeting of the Delegation for relations with the United States. We'll have the opportunity today to discuss the outcome of the midterm election and the impact that it will have on us in Europe. In order to allow for an interactive discussion, we have a longer meeting, although if we are not that many we can also finish before the end of the meeting that is also allowed. So let me first inform you that interpretation is confirmed for the following language: English, French, German, Italian, Greek, Spanish and Romanian. First, we have to go through the agenda point, which is adoption of the draft agenda, and if there are no objection, the draft agenda is deemed adopted.
Second point is the approval of the minute of the meeting of the 21st October of this year, and I don't feel or see that there are objections, therefore the draft minute of the meeting of the 21st October 26 are deemed adopted at the end of the this meeting. So, let's come to why we have gathered today. It's a great pleasure for me to give a very warm welcome to Mr Bruce Stokes, who's a GMF visiting senior fellow, who is joining us remotely. Mr Stokes, you have spent a large part of the autumn in Europe, but you have back to Washington, you have been back to Washington, D.C. for the election. So many of you will probably know Mr Stokes as a great transatlanticist, and his CV is very long.
And beside the German Marshall Fund, where amongst other things, you have been editing the Transatlantic Trends survey, you have also been a director at PEW and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations after a long career as an international economic reporter. So, however, before I let you start, I will give the floor to two members of the US Congress. We have Representative Keith Self and Representative Kim Jim Costa. You all remember Jim Costa, who is a longstanding friend of the D-US delegation, and he is the current ranking members member of the TLD, while Representative Keith Self is currently chairing the House of Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe and has also participated in a TLD mission, a meeting. So, Representative Costa would very much have liked to participate live in our meeting today, but he's travelling back to Washington at this moment.
However, we will have the opportunity to hear a message that he has left you. So, first, we are going to have the pleasure to speak with Representative Self.
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