Publication

This policy paper argues that the EU has a chance to help define new trans-Atlantic standards for combating terrorism in line with traditional European and American values. The EU can influence the development of these policies, the author argues, only if the EU moves swiftly to agree a joint framework for taking significant numbers of detainees from Guantanamo Bay. The brief recommends that the EU must review its own counterterrorism principles and calls for a 'public declaration' with the US to show that the divisions on issues - from the definition of torture to illegal detention - that have plagued international law and trans-Atlantic relations for the last eight years have finally been overcome.