Featured Enhancing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Relationship, Peter Chase, Wilson Center/Transatlantic Leadership Network Must-Reads Democracy - Global democracy has a very bad year, The Economist US - The Year in Hate and Extremism, Southern Poverty Law Center US/Defense - Access Denied? The Future of U.S. Basing in a Contested World, Renanah M. Joyce and Brian Blankenship, War on the Rocks US/Deterrence - Forging 21st-Century Strategic Deterrence, Admiral Charles A. Richard, U.S. Naval Institute US/Climate - Under-reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities, Kevin Robert Gurney, et al., Nature Communications US/Health - How a US agency hopes to predict disease just like the weather, Anjana Ahuja, Financial Times North America - Fulfilling North America’s Promise, Earl Anthony Wayne, Wilson Center UK/EU - Foreign Policy Cooperation: Brexit’s Missing Link, Luigi Scazzieri, Centre for European Reform EU/Health - EU Faces 100 Billion-Euro Price Tag for Bungled Vaccine Push, Alexander Weber, Bloomberg EU/Economy/Energy - The geopolitics of the European Green Deal, Mark Leonard, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Jeremy Shapiro, Simone Tagliapietra and Guntram Wolf, Bruegel EU/US - Open strategic autonomy: What’s in a name? Susan Danger, Euractiv EU/US/China - EU goes soft on China in hopes of a climate ‘partnership’ while the US plays hardball, Karl Mathiesen, Politico Europe/Mobility - European Mobility Atlas 2021: Facts and Figures About Transport and Mobility in Europe, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Eastern Europe - Tackling frozen conflicts in the EU’s own neighbourhood, Bogdan Aurescu, EU Observer Central and Eastern Europe/China - The Chinese Economic Footprint in Central and Eastern Europe: Impact on Energy Transition and Climate, Center for the Study of Democracy Digital - Advancing Data Governance in the G7, Matthew P. Goodman and Pearl Risberg, CSIS