Poll backs bigger world role for EU

Report of the Transatlantic Trens 2007 report of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Transatlantic Trends is an annual public opinion survey examining American and European attitudes toward the transatlantic relationship. A project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Compagnia di San Paolo, with additional support provided by Fundação Luso-Americana, Fundación BBVA, and the Tipping Point Foundation, the 2007 survey examines what citizens on both sides of the Atlantic think about a broad range of topics, including:

The state of transatlantic relations under new leadership in Europe and in advance of the 2008 U.S. presidential elections

Perceptions of international threats, such as terrorism, energy dependence, immigration, and global warming

Attitudes toward the EU as a global actor in development, trade, peacekeeping, reconstruction, and combat

Transatlantic cooperation on international challenges such as the mission in Afghanistan and the potential threat of a nuclear Iran

Views toward a more assertive Russia

Democracy promotion as a foreign policy goal

Turkey's relations with the West

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German Marshall Fund of the United States: Transatlantic Trends 2007 http://blog.gmfus.org/2007/09/

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