2024 is shaping up to be an unusual year. Not only are an unprecedented number of countries going to the polls, with more than 50 elections taking place across the globe mobilising more than a quarter of the world’s population, but, closer to home, elections to the European Parliament will take place from 6 – 9 June, with a new European Commission being chosen and, in the late autumn, the US presidential and congressional elections will take place on Tuesday, 5 November. Such a conjunction has not occurred in transatlantic relations since 2004.

In this year of elections, for the first time, TPN hosted its flagship event, Transatlantic Week 2024, in Brussels. The successful event was staged at the European Parliament Library, similar to the way the US Library of Congress has been used for previous TA Weeks in Washington, D.C.