EU Security and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
Virtual Member-Only Briefing
October 25, 2022 | 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM ET
When President Biden and his team came to the office, they had a clear sense of priority: shifting the U.S. foreign policy’s focus from the Middle East and Europe to the Asia Pacific. At the same time, the EU was planning the Strategic Compass, an EU security independence strategy. However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered a reassessment of U.S. foreign policy priorities and transatlantic relations. How does the EU plan to provide security to the region in light of the invasion? As winter is coming, how does the EU maintain its energy security given the dependence of several major European economies on Russian energy? How does it affect the climate change commitment of the Union? And lastly, what does the future hold for EU-U.S. relations? Join us on Tuesday, October 25 at 6 PM PM ET to explore these questions and more in a private, off-the-record conversation with Ambassador Michael Curtis, Deputy Head of the European Union Delegation to the United States where we will discuss the topic of EU security independence and the future of transatlantic relations amidst the invasion of Ukraine.
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SPEAKER:
Deputy Ambassador Michael Curtis
Michael Curtis has been the EU Deputy Ambassador to the US since September 1st 2019. Immediately before joining the Delegation, he served in the team of the EU’s Foreign Policy Chief, Federica Mogherini, advising her on a number of important foreign policy issues for the past 5 years including on Transatlantic relations.
He has had a long career in the European Union institutions working mainly on foreign policy and external relations, trade, development and humanitarian issues. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as the EU Humanitarian Affairs Counsellor to the United Nations in New York. From 2000 to 2004, he worked on the team of the EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Poul Nielson, first as Press Spokesperson then as a member of his Staff.
Mr. Curtis has also had two stints working for the European Commission’s Secretariat General focusing on relations with the EU Member States in the area of foreign policy and trade, then relations with the European External Action Service where he was closely involved with its setting up in 2010.
Mr. Curtis has a Bachelor’s degree in French and Politics from Leicester University in the U.K and a post-graduate Master’s degree in European Politics from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He is a dual Italian/British national.
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