AGI-KAS 2025 Transatlantic Trade Week

June 3 – Session One

Transatlantic Economic Dynamics: Managing Conflict, Preparing for a Deal?

This private conversation focuses on actual and potential U.S.-German and U.S.-EU friction points—trade balances, digital services taxes, the DMA/DSA, VAT, non-economic issues—and avenues for their resolution. It also addresses areas of common transatlantic interest such as the challenge of China’s manufacturing overcapacity and the interplay of technologies like AI and economic security.

Speakers

Daniel Caspary, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade, and Member of the Delegation for Relations with the United States
Bryant Trick, Assistant United States Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East
Christoph Schemionek, President of the Representative for German Industry and Trade
Kate Kalutkiewicz, Senior Managing Partner, McLarty Associates

Moderator

Peter Rashish, Vice President and Director, Geoeconomics Program, AGI

June 5 – Session Two

The Implications of New German and EU Policies for the Transatlantic Trade Relationship

This webinar focuses on the evolution of German and EU trade, fiscal, defense, and industrial policies and their implications for the United States and the global economy. Among the issues that will be addressed are the importance of economic security vs. free trade in German and EU trade policy, the ramifications of the Draghi and Letta Reports for the EU as a geoeconomic actor, and the transatlantic and global economic consequences of the proposed new German debt rules and investment spending.

Speakers

Michelle Egan, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, Co-Director of the Transatlantic Policy Center in the School of International Service, American University
Philip Luck, Director of the Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Matthias Krämer, Head of the Department of External Economic Policy, The Federation of German Industries (BDI)
Silvia Merler, Nonresident Fellow, Bruegel
Alexander Privitera, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, AGI

Moderator

Peter Rashish, Vice President and Director, Geoeconomics Program, AGI

This event is made possible by support from the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.