Forget the past

Dean O Hare, chairman and chief executive of Chubb Corporation, believes now is the time for Europe and the US to step back from the escalation of damaging bilateral trade disputes and consider the broader economic and strategic interests involved in the EU-US trade relationship. Mr O Hare calls on both sides to take advantage of the unprecedented opportunity created by a new administration in Washington willing to take a fresh look at the EU-US relationship, unburdened by the baggage of the past. Mr O Hare is a trade policy adviser to president George W Bush.