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<div class="gmail_quote">Anyone interested in the TTIP negotiations might also be interested in this program. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Note that you must register in advance and may be asked for ID at the door. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Best,<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ann <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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<td>Mark Kennedy: The 2016 Elections and the Transatlantic
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<td>Fri, 6 Mar 2015 14:43:37 +0100</td>
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<p><i>The U.S. Embassy, ÖPAV & the
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to:</i><i><span lang="DE-AT"><u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#c00000;text-transform:uppercase" lang="DE-AT"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#c00000;text-transform:uppercase" lang="DE-AT">Future Focus - the 2016 Elections and the
Transatlantic Partnership<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt" lang="DE-AT">A Discussion with Mark Kennedy, George
Washington University<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.at/maps/place/Amerika+Haus/@48.210122,16.355612,15z/data=%214m2%213m1%211s0x0:0x3a9ae29e2e76d4fb" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Amerika Haus</span></b></a></span><span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tuesday,
March 17, 2015 </span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">6:30
p.m.<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">R.S.V.P.:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:programs@usembassy.at" target="_blank">programs@usembassy.at</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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2, 1010 Wien<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Welcome
& Introductions:<u></u><u></u></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Robert
Greenan, U.S. Embassy Vienna<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Lonnie
Johnson, Executive Director, Austrian-American Fulbright
Commission<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Peter
Köppl, ÖPAV President, GSPM alum <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><img src="cid:part3.09050408.05000308@modul.ac.at" height="190" align="left" hspace="12" width="202"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Administration and Congress are
working to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and the
Trans Pacific Partnership while American politics is
increasingly intertwined with the 2016 presidential
election. With new leadership now in place in the European
Union, the prospect for progress on TTIP seems hopeful, but
completing an agreement will take expert political dexterity
on both sides of the Atlantic. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="DE-AT">Having been a decisive vote in Congress on the
last TPA bill and having served as a trade advisor for both
President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, the
Honorable <a href="http://markkennedy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none" lang="EN-US">Mark Kennedy</span></a>,
Director and Professor of George Washington University’s <a href="http://gspm.gwu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none" lang="EN-US">Graduate
School of Political Management</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> (GSPM)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="DE-AT">, will provide an
overview of what it will take to strengthen the essential
partnership between the United States and Europe.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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